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2.7 KiB
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108 lines
2.7 KiB
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id:
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aliases: []
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title: The Cruel Mother (Traditional)
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tags:
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- authorship/other
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- destiny/permanent
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- exclude-from-word-count
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- status/incomplete
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- topic/banjo
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- type/media/music
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---
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# The Cruel Mother (Traditional)
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## Lyrics
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```verse
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There lived a lady, lived in york
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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She fell in love with her own father's clark
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's leaned her back against a tree
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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Said "Honorable Mary, pity me"
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's leaned herself against an oak
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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She thought three times that her back would be broke
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's leaned her back against a thorn
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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And there she's had two bonnie babes born
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's taken her ribbon, long and neat
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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And tied those babes their hands and feet
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's taken up her small pen knife
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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With which to take their two wee lives
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's taken the pen knife, long and sharp
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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And pressed it into their tender hearts
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's wiped her pen knife on the grass
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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(The more)? she wiped the blood ran fast
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She's dug a grave both wide and deep
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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In which to put those babes to sleep
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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She went to walk in the woods one night
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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She saw two babes dressed all in white
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Oh bonnie babes if you were mine
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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I'd dress you up in silk so fine
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Oh mother mother we were thine
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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You did not dress us in silk so fine
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Oh bonnie babes what will become of me
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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You'll be seven years a bird in a tree
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Seven years a bird in a tree
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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Then seven years more a fish in the sea
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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Then seven years more a tongue in a bell
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All alone and a-lonely, oh!
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Then seven years more a-burning in hell
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Down by the greenwood sidey, oh!
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Down by the greenwood sidey
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```
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