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there was a night, and a lady bright |
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and three little babes had she |
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she sent them away |
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to a far country |
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to learn their grammery |
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they hadn't been gone |
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but a very short time |
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about three months and a day |
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when the lark's spread over this whole wild world |
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and take those babes away |
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it was on a cold, cold christmas night |
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when everything was still |
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and she saw her three little babes come runnin' |
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come runnin' down their hill |
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she set them a table of bread and wine |
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that they might drink and eat |
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she spread them a bed of winding sheet |
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that they might sleep so sweet |
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take it off, take it off |
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cried the eldest one |
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take it off, take it off cried she |
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for if she'd stay here in this wicked world |
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when there's a better world for me |
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cold clogs, cold clogs inside my bed |
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cold clogs down in my feet |
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but tears my dear, mother shed for me |
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would wed my winding sheet |
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would wed my winding sheet |
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the tears my dear, mother shed for me |
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would wed my winding sheet |
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would wed my winding sheet |
