Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 20
The Cruel Mother
Version M

Communicated by Miss Margaret Reburn, as learned in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860.

1	'O mother dear, when we were thine, All a lee and aloney O You neither dressed us in coarse or fine.' Down by the greenwood sidy O

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