Cruel Mother-Graham Coxon

[00:13.414]A minister's daughter in the north [00:19.004]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [00:24.072]She's fallen in love with her father's clerk, [00:29.584]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [00:40.999]He courted her for a year and a day, [00:46.328]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [00:51.291]Till her the young man did betray. [00:56.934]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [01:08.793]She leaned her back up against a thorn [01:14.828]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [01:19.895]And that two bonny boys she has born. [01:25.486]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [01:37.058]She's taken out her little pen-knife [01:42.544]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [01:47.507]And she has twined them of their life. [01:53.280]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [02:06.132]She buried them beneath some marble stone [02:11.801]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [02:17.051]Thinking to go a maiden home. [02:22.302]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [02:34.971]As she looked over her father's wall [02:40.117]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [02:45.185]She saw her two bonny boys playing ball. [02:50.619]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [03:02.687]"Oh bonny boys, if you were mine [03:08.486]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [03:13.815]I dress you up in the silk so fine." [03:19.406]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [03:31.448]"But cruel mother, when we were thine [03:37.169]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [03:42.237]We didn't see aught of your silk so fine." [03:47.801]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [04:00.366]"Now bonny boys, come tell to me [04:06.086]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [04:11.233]What sort of death I'll have to die?" [04:16.666]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [04:28.761]"Seven years as a fish in the flood, [04:33.959]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [04:38.975]And seven years as a bird in the wood." [04:44.617]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [04:57.469]"Seven years a tongue in the warning bell, [05:03.216]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [05:08.180]And seven years in the flames of hell." [05:13.561]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [05:26.230]"Welcome, welcome, fish in the flood, [05:31.951]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [05:36.966]And welcome, welcome, bird in the wood." [05:41.956]Down by the greenwood side-i-o. [05:54.860]"Welcome, tongue to the warning bell, [06:00.242]Hey the rose and the lindsay-o, [06:05.362]But God keep me from the flames of hell." [06:11.317]Down by the greenwood side-i-o.