Joan Baez – Lady Gay (Guitar)

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There was a Lady and a Lady gay

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Of children she had three

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She sent them away to the North Countree

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To learn their grammaree

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They'd not been gone but a very short time

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Scarcely three weeks and a day

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When death, cruel death, came harkening along

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And stole those babes away

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"There is a King in Heaven," she cried

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"A King of third degree

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Send back, send back my three little babes

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This night send them back to me."

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She made a bed in the uppermost room

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On it she put a white sheet

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And over the top a golden spread

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That they much better might sleep

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"Take it off, take it off," cried the older one

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"Take it off, take it off," cried he

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"For what's to become of this wide wicked world

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Since sin has first begun."

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She set a table of linen fine

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On it she placed bread and wine

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Come eat come drink my three little babes

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"Come eat, come drink of mine."

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"We want none of your bread, mother

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Neither do we want your wine

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For yonder stands our Savior dear

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To Him we must resign."

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"Green grass is over our heads, mother

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Cold clay is over our feet

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And every tear you shed for us

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It wets our winding-sheet."