Greenwood Side-e-o Lyrics

(Traditional)

There was a lady lived in York
All alone and a loney
Fell in love with her father's clerk
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

She loved him up, she loved him down
All alone and a loney
Loved him 'til she filled his arms
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

She leaned her back against an oak
All alone and a loney
First it bent and then it broke
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

She leaned her back against a thorn
All alone and a loney
There she had two fine babes born
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

She took off her wee pen knife
All alone and a loney
There she took those sweet babes lives
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

She wiped the blade against her shoe
All alone and a loney
The more she rubbed, the leather in blood
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

She went back to her father's hall
All alone and a loney
There two babes a-playing at ball
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

Oh babes, oh babes, if you were mine
All alone and a loney
I'd dress you up in scarlet fine
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

Oh mother, oh mother, if we were yours
All alone and a loney
Scarlet was on your heart's blood
Down by the greenwood side-e-o

Oh babes, oh babes, it's happened for you
All alone and a loney
Mother, oh mother, it's hell for you
Down by the greenwood side-e-o