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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Edited by Francis James Child.
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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
THE CRUEL MOTHER—M
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Communicated by Miss Margaret Reburn, as learned in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860.
‘O mother dear, when we were thine,
All a lee and aloney O
You neither dressed us in coarse or fine.’
Down by the greenwood sidy O
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads