X:1
T:The Cruel Mother
B:Marrow Bones, Ed Frank Purslow, EFDS, 1965
S:Mrs Case, Sydling St. Nicholas, Dorset, Sept 1907
Z:Hammond D.863
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Am
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w:There was a la-dy lived_ in York All a-lon-ey a-
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w:lone-y, She was court-ed by_ her fa--ther's clerk Down by the green-wood
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w:side-y
W:The was a lady lived in York
W:(all alone-y, alone-y)
W:She was courted by her father's clerk.
W:(Down by the greenwood side-y.)
W:
W:She leaned her back against an oak
W:But first it bent and then it broke.
W:
W:She leaned herself against a thorn
W:And there she had two pretty babes born.
W:
W:She had a pen-knife long and sharp,
W:And she pressed it through their tender hearts.
W:
W:She digged a grave both wide and long,
W:And she buried them under a marble stone.
W:
W:And she was sat at her father's hall,
W:Oh there she saw two pretty babes playing at ball.
W:
W:Oh babes - oh babes if you were mine,
W:I would dress you up in the scarlet fine.
W:
W:Oh mother, oh mother we once were thine,
W:You did not dress us in the scarlet fine.
W:
W:You digged a grave both wide and long,
W:And you buried under a marble stone.
W:
W:Babes - oh babes come tell to me,
W:If you know what the future means to me.
W:
W:Mother - oh mother you know right well,
W:'Tis we for Heaven and you for Hell.
W: