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The Cruel Mother

No: 20; variant: 20G

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