The Cruel Mother Chords by Lothlorien

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_ _ _ _ _ _ There was a lady [B] lived in York, [A] orderly and lonely.
Fell in love with the father's clerk down by the greenwood side of York.
She loved him up, she loved him down, orderly and lonely.
_ Loved him till he filled her arms down by the greenwood side of York.
She lent her back against an oak, _ orderly and lonely.
First it bent and then it broke down by the greenwood side of York.
She lent her back against a thorn, orderly and lonely.
There she had to find babe's barn down by the greenwood side of York.
_ She got out her reaping knife, orderly and lonely.
_ There she took those fine babe's lives down by the greenwood side of York.
She wiped the blade against a shoe, orderly and lonely.
The more she rubbed the redder it grew down by the greenwood side of York. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ She went back to her father's home, orderly and lonely.
Saw two babes up laying at ball down by the greenwood side [Em] of York.
[A] Oh babes, oh babes, if you were mine, orderly and lonely,
I'd rest you up in scarlet vine down by the greenwood side of York.
Oh mother, oh mother, if we were yours, orderly and lonely, _
scarlet was our own hot blood down by the greenwood side of York.
[D] Oh babes, oh babes, it's heaven for you, orderly and lonely.
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Oh mother, oh mother, it's hell for you down by the greenwood side of York. _ _ _ _ _
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