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THE CRUEL MOTHER—G
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There was a lady lived on [a] lea,All alone, alone O
Down by the greenwood side went she.
Down the greenwood side O
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She set her foot all on a thorn,There she had two babies born.
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O she had nothing to lap them in,But a white appurn, and that was thin.
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