There was a night in Lady Bride
And three little bays had she
She sent them away to a far country
To learn their grammar read
They hadn't been gone
but a very short time
About three months and a day
Till the Lord call over this
whole wide world
And take those babes away
It was on a dark, cold Christmas night
When everything was still
She saw her three little
birds come running
Come running down the hill
She spread a table of bread and wine
So they might drink and eat
She spread a bed of winding sheep
That they might sleep so sweet
Take it off, take it off,
ride the old and the strong
Take it off, take it off said she
I can't stay here in this wide
wicked world
There's a man, one for me
Cold clods, cold clods down by my side
Cold clothes down at my feet
The tears my dear mother shed for me
Would wet my wind
ing sheet
Being