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The other day I was listening to the radio, and this folk song came on. The guy singing it had a really bad, whiny voice, but the song was good. I forgot that radio station :-(. It had something to do with a mother and her child. I could only catch a few words"...on the Greenwood Side." Anyone know it?
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The only song i know that has "greenwood" even mentioned in it is "The Cruel Mother" by Lothlorien. Maybe it's right, maybe it's not.
The lyrics are as follows:
There was a lady lived in York - all the lee and loney
Fell in love with her father's clerk - down by the greenwood sidey-o
She loved him up, she loved him down - all the lee and loney
Loved him 'til he filled her arms - down by the greenwood sidey-o
She leant her back against an oak - all the lee and loney
First it bent and then it broke - down by the greenwood sidey-o
She leant her back against a thorn - all the lee and loney
There she had two fine babes born - down by the greenwood sidey-o
She took out her reaping knife - all the lee and loney
There she took those fine babes' lives - down by the greenwood sidey-o
She wiped the blade against her shoe - all the lee and loney
The more she rubbed, the redder it grew - down by the greenwood sidey-o
She went back to her father's hall - all the lee and loney
Saw two babes a-playing at ball - down by the greenwood sidey-o
'Oh babes oh babes if you were mine' - all the lee and loney
'I'd dress you up in scarlet fine' - down by the greenwood sidey-o
'Oh Mother Oh Mother if we were yours' - all the lee and loney
'Scarlet was our own hearts' blood' - down by the greenwood sidey-o
'Oh babes Oh babes it's Heaven for you' - all the lee and loney
'Oh Mother Oh Mother it's Hell for you' - down by the greenwood sidey-o
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