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Joanna Newsom - Three Little Babes Lyrics

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  • 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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