[00:00.535]There was a knight and a lady bright
[00:09.208]And three little babes had she
[00:15.686]She sent them away to a far country
[00:24.124]To learn their grammerie
[00:30.733]They hadn't been gone but a very short time
[00:39.171]About three months and a day
[00:45.780]When the lark spread over this whole wide world
[00:54.217]And taken those babes away
[01:00.826]It was on a cold, cold Christmas night
[01:09.342]When everything was still
[01:15.637]And she saw her three little babes come running
[01:24.806]Come running down the hill
[01:31.337]She set them a table of bread and wine
[01:39.592]That they might drink and eat
[01:46.723]She spread them a bed of winding sheet
[01:55.056]That they might sleep so sweet
[02:02.188]"Take it off, take it off," cried the eldest one
[02:10.286]"Take it off, take it off," cried she
[02:17.234]"For she stayed here, in this wicked world
[02:25.907]When there's a better world for me."
[02:32.411]"Cold clods, cold clods, inside my bed
[02:41.502]Cold clods, down at my feet
[02:47.902]The tears my dear mother shed for me
[02:56.078]Would wet my winding sheet."
[03:03.053]"The tears my dear mother shed for me
[03:11.778]Would wet my winding sheet
[03:19.562]Would wet my winding sheet."
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