Misc Traditional – Poor Babes In The Woods (Guitar)

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Oh my dears, do you know?

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How a long time ago,

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these poor little children whose

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names I don't know

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Were stolen away, on a bright summer's day

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and left in the woods I've heard people say.

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And when it was night, so sad was their plight.

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The sun had gone down

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and the moon gave no light.

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They sighed, and they sighed,

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and they bitterly cried.

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Poor babes in the woods

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they laid down and died.

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And when they were dead, the robin so red

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brought strawberry leaves

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and o'er they spread.

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And all the day long, the branches among,

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they mournfully whistled

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and this was their song.

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Poor babes in the woods,

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Poor babes in the woods.

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Oh don't you remember

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the babes in the woods.