Cruel Mother

There was a lady lived in the North Oh, the rose and the linsie O She fell in love with her faither's clerk Down by the greenwood sidie, O He courted her a year and a day Oh, the rose and the linsie O Till her the young man did betray Down by the greenwood sidie, O She leaned her back up against a thorn Oh, the rose and the linsie O There she had two pretty babes born Down by the greenwood sidie, O She took her penknife, keen and sharp Oh, the rose and the linsie O She has stuck it through their hearts Down by the greenwood sidie, O As she was walking her father's path Oh, the rose and the linsie O She saw two babes a playing ball Down by the greenwood sidie, O She said O, babes, if you can tell Oh, the rose and the linsie O What kind of death I have to die Down by the greenwood sidie, O Seven years a fish in the flood Oh, the rose and the linsie O Seven years a bird in the wood Down by the greenwood sidie, O Seven years a tongue in the warning bell Oh, the rose and the linsie O Seven years in the flames of hell Down by the greenwood sidie, O Oh, welcome, welcome, fish in the flood Oh, the rose and the linsie O Welcome, welcome, bird in the wood Down by the greenwood sidie, O Welcome, welcome tongue in the warning bell Oh, the rose and the linsie O God keep me from the flames in Hell Down by the greenwood sidie, O