Three Little Babes-Joanna Newsom

[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." [03:25.988]