Cruel Mother

Cruel Mother - Judy Collins

There was a lady lived in York

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

She fell in love with her father's clerk

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He courted her for a year and a day

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

Till her the young man did her betray

Away by the greenwood side e o

She leaned her back up against a thorn

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

Then she had two pretty babes born

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She took her penknife keen and sharp

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

She has stabbed it to their

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As she was walking her father's hall

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

She saw two babes a playing ball

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She said Oh babes it's you can tell

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

What kind of death I have to die

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Seven years a fish in the flood

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

Seven years a bird in the wood

Down by the greenwood side e o

Seven years a tongue in the warning bell

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

Seven years in the flames of hell

Down by the greenwood side e o

Oh welcome welcome fish in the flood

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

Welcome welcome bird in the wood

Down by the greenwood side e o

Welcome welcome tongue in the warning bell

Oh the rose and the lindsay oh

God keep me from the flames in hell

Down by the greenwood side e o