Three Little Babes Lyrics - Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsom

There was a knight and a lady bright 

And three little babes had she 

She sent them away to a far country 

To learn their grammar 

They hadn't been gone but a very short time 

About three months and a day 

When the lark spread over this whole wide world 

And taken those babes away 

It was on a cold cold Christmas night 

When everything was still 

And she saw her three little babes come running 

Come running down the hill 

She set them a table of bread and wine 

That they might drink and eat 

She spread them a bed of a winding sheet 

That they might sleep so sweet 

'Take it off, take it off!', cried the eldest one 

'Take it off, take it off!', cried she 

'For i shan't stay here in this wicked world 

When there's a better one for me' 

'Cold clods, cold clods inside my bed 

Cold clods, down at my feet 

The tears my dear mother shed for me 

Would wet my winding sheet' 

'The tears my dear mother shed for me 

Would wet my winding sheet 

Would wet my winding sheet