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Three Little Babies Paroles

Joanna Newsom

Album The Milk-Eyed Mender

Paroles de Three Little Babies

There was a knight and a lady bright
And three little babes had she
She sent them away to a far country
To learn their grammary

They hadn't been gone but a very short time
About three months and a day
When the lark spread over this whole wide world
And taken those babes away

It was on a cold cold christmas night
When everything was still
And she saw her three little babes come running
Come running down the hill

She set them a table of bread and wine
That they might drink and eat
She spread them a bed of a winding sheet
That they might sleep so sweet

'Take it off, take it off!', cried the eldest one
'Take it off, take it off!', cried she
'For i shan't stay here in this wicked world
When there's a better one for me'

'Cold clods, cold clods inside my bed 'The tears my dear mother shed for me
Would wet my winding sheet
Would wet my winding sheet'