11. Three Little Babes
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 grammerie
they hadn't been gone but a very short time
about three months and a day
when the lark spread o'er this whole wide world
and taken those babes away
it was on a cold cold Christmas night
when everything was still
ahe saw her three little babes come running
come running down the hill
she spread them a table of bread and wine
that they might drink and eat
she spread them a bed of 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
cold clods down at my feet
the tears my dear mother shed for me
would wet my winding sheet
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