Cream – Mothers Lament (Guitar)

   G                      Am
A mother was washing her baby one night;

     D                    G   Em   D
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.

     G                       Am
The mother was poor and the baby was thin;

      D                     G       Em   D
'Twas naught but a skeleton covered with skin.

     G                           Am
The mother turned 'round for the soap off the rack.

         D                G    Em         D
She was only a moment but when she turned back

     G                     Am
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,

      D                           G      Em   D
"Oh, where has my baby gone?" The angels re - plied:

         G        Em            C
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole.

  D                         G
Your baby has gone down the plug.

C               C#dim7       G/D        E7
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,

   A9                           D    D  Dmaj7 D7
He should have been washed in a jug, in a     jug.

G                      C
Your baby is perfectly happy;

 D              D7      G
He won't need a bath anymore.

 C             C#dim7         G/D    E7
He's a-muckin' about with the angels above,

    Cmaj7       Cmaj7/D D G       G7
Not lost but no longer be poor.