Chords for Joan Baez Lady Gay - Child Ballad 79

_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ There was a _ lady and a [Cm] lady gave
_ All children she [Eb] had three
She sent them away _ to the North Country _ _
To learn [Cm] how to read _ _
_ _ _ _ They'd [Eb] not been gone a [Cm] very short time
Scarcely three weeks and [Eb] a day
When death, cruel death
Came hearkening along _
And stole those [Cm] babes away _
_ _ _ _ _ There is [Eb] a king _ in heaven, [Cm] she cried _
A king of [Eb] third degree
_ Send back, send back
My three little _ _ babes
This night, send [Cm] back to me _
_ _ _ She _ [Eb] made a bed _ [Cm] for her little soul
On it she [Eb] put a white sheet
_ And over the top
A golden spread, _ _ _ _ _ she [Cm] said, her night sleep
_ _ _ Take it [Eb] off, take it _ off, cried the [Cm] older one
_ _ Take it off, take it [Eb] off, cried _ he
For what's to become _ of this white wicked world
Sin, _ _ sin has [Cm] hurt thee God _ _ _
_ _ _ She [Eb] set a _ table of [Cm] linen and pine
_ On it she [Eb] placed bread and wine
_ Come eat, come drink
My three little _ babes
Come eat, _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ we [Eb] want more _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ Neither do we [Eb] want your wine
_ For he understands
Our Savior _ did
Through him _ [Cm] trees are _ _ _ _ _ green
[Eb] Grass is old _
_ [Cm] Dead mother
_ Cold clay [Eb] is over our feet
And every tear you shed for us _ _ _
It wets our [Cm] winding feet _ _ _