VoiceCollected and transcribed by Mary Celestia Parler Sung by Mrs. Pearl Brewer Pocahontas, Arkansas August 28, 1958 Reel 297, Item 5 All Down By the Greenwood Side (The Cruel Mother, Child #20) This maid was passing by one day, All alone and alone, She saw those babes both out for play, All down by the greenwood side. 0 babes, 0 babes, if you were mine, All alone and alone, I'd dress you up in silk so fine, All down by the greenwood side. 0 mother, dear mother, we once were yours, All alone and alone, You neither gave us coarse nor fine, You killed and buried us under a stone, And prayed to the Lord it'd never be known, All down by the greenwood side. For seven long years you shall hear a bell, All alone and alone, And at the end of seven...
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