The Squid Jiggin' Ground / Larry O'Gaff 歌詞
There was a night 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
Cold clods down at my feet
The tears my dear mother shed for me
Would wet my winding sheet'