Misc Traditional

The Cruel Mother(Chords)

Misc Traditional

Key: Em

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Capo on 1st fret
	        
 

Em          D        Em    D  Em 
there was a lady who lived in york 
    Em       G            D           Em 
she proved a child by her own fathers clock 

Em             D    Em      D Em 
she leaned her back against a thorn 
    Em        G       D    Em 
and there she had her baby born 

Em         D       Em   D  Em 
she pulled out her weeping knife 
 Em     G         D           Em 
and she took that sweet babes life 

Em            D         Em  D  Em 
she wiped the blade all on the grass 
        Em         G         D         Em 
but the harder she wiped the blood ran fast 

Em             D         Em  D  Em 
she washed her hands all in the stream 
 Em         G      D    Em 
thinking to turn a maid again 

Em         D            Em   D      Em 
as she was walking down her fathers hall 
    Em        G        D              Em 
she saw three babies a playing at the ball 

Em             D        Em    D  Em 
one dressed in silk the other in satin 
    Em       G        D        Em 
the other as naked as ever was born 

Em         D         Em  D    Em 
all little babies if you were mine 
    Em           G        D        Em 
I'd dress you in silk and satin so fine 

Em        D      Em   D   Em 
oh mother dear I once was dying 
    Em      G           D          Em 
you neither dress me in clothes so fine 

Em          D       Em  D  Em 
the coldest clay it was my bed 
    Em    G         D       Em 
the green grass was my coverlet 

Em          D               Em     D  Em 
all my fine babes what will become of me 
  Em                 G       D        Em 
you'll be seven long years a bud in a tree 

Em         D         Em     D    Em 
seven long years the tongue of a bell 
 Em        G       D         Em 
seven long years a porter in hell
	        

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