Cruel Mother Lyrics
The song Cruel Mother is performed by Judy Collins .
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There was a lady lived in York
Oh, the rose and the lindsay oh
She fell in love with her father's clerk
Away by the greenwood side-e-o
He courted her for a year and a day
Till her the young man did her betray
She leaned her back up against a thorn
Then she had two pretty babes born
She took her penknife keen and sharp
She has stabbed it to their hearts
As she was walking her father’s hall
She saw two babes a-playing ball
She said Oh babes it’s you can tell
What kind of death I have to die
Seven years a fish in the flood
Seven years a bird in the wood
Seven years a tongue in the warning bell
Seven years in the flames of hell
Oh welcome welcome fish in the flood
Welcome welcome bird in the wood
Welcome welcome tongue in the warning bell
God keep me from the flames in hell.