Nurse Scott
The late 1800’s white death fills the air
Tuberculosis is rampant, the economy in disrepair
The number of deaths increases each day
People dying or dead the smell of rancid decay
Waverly hills sanatorium was quickly erected
To house the insane and then the infected
In their attempts to control and cure the white death
Hundreds would perish and be laded to rest
Even the workers were not safe from the plague
How many had been infected, the documents vague
But one of the nurses who had worked the fifth floor
Has a story told by her family and it seems to endure
The test of time and is still told today
About a conscientious nurse and her final days
Nurse Emily Scott was like a fresh breeze
Tending the sick that had Sercombe to the decease
Her smiling face and her happy demeanor
Calmed the sick and the schizophrenia
She would play the piano that was in the game room
Tickling the ivories and tapping out a tune
Well respected by everyone she had care for
Even the depraved isolated on the fifth floor
To everyone’s dismay on a cold solemn day
Nurse Scott took her life using a surgical knife
The truth may have been twisted and a little hazy
The story goes she was rape buy a patient and was expecting a baby
The labels attached to an unwed mother
Would bring shame and rumors one after another
While trapped in the morbid depths of despair
She took her life while reciting the Lord’s Prayer
Over 100 Years have now past the sanatorium empty
Stories are told and rumors a plenty
Lights would shine from the windows late at night
Strange noises emanating from Waverly Hill's burial sight
More time has passed and so the story is told
People would visit and hope to behold
The ghosts that are said the walk through the halls
A woman that plays the piano and passes through walls
The notes of the music swirled through the air
Many people have heard it they search for answers that are not there
They continue to come to hopefully witness the apparition
A glance of the nurse or hear her musical composition
Waverly hills still stands empty today
People continue to flock there in hope to her nurse Scott play.
Tuberculosis is rampant, the economy in disrepair
The number of deaths increases each day
People dying or dead the smell of rancid decay
Waverly hills sanatorium was quickly erected
To house the insane and then the infected
In their attempts to control and cure the white death
Hundreds would perish and be laded to rest
Even the workers were not safe from the plague
How many had been infected, the documents vague
But one of the nurses who had worked the fifth floor
Has a story told by her family and it seems to endure
The test of time and is still told today
About a conscientious nurse and her final days
Nurse Emily Scott was like a fresh breeze
Tending the sick that had Sercombe to the decease
Her smiling face and her happy demeanor
Calmed the sick and the schizophrenia
She would play the piano that was in the game room
Tickling the ivories and tapping out a tune
Well respected by everyone she had care for
Even the depraved isolated on the fifth floor
To everyone’s dismay on a cold solemn day
Nurse Scott took her life using a surgical knife
The truth may have been twisted and a little hazy
The story goes she was rape buy a patient and was expecting a baby
The labels attached to an unwed mother
Would bring shame and rumors one after another
While trapped in the morbid depths of despair
She took her life while reciting the Lord’s Prayer
Over 100 Years have now past the sanatorium empty
Stories are told and rumors a plenty
Lights would shine from the windows late at night
Strange noises emanating from Waverly Hill's burial sight
More time has passed and so the story is told
People would visit and hope to behold
The ghosts that are said the walk through the halls
A woman that plays the piano and passes through walls
The notes of the music swirled through the air
Many people have heard it they search for answers that are not there
They continue to come to hopefully witness the apparition
A glance of the nurse or hear her musical composition
Waverly hills still stands empty today
People continue to flock there in hope to her nurse Scott play.