Chords for The Cruel Mother - Greenwood Side

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There [Gm] was a lady [Cm] lived in York
_ It was all [D] alone and alone _ _
[Ab] She fell in [G] love with her father's clerk
_ _ Down [Cm] by the greenwood side _
_ _ _ [Gm] He [C] _
_ [Gm] courted her for a [D] year and a [Cm] day
It was [D] all alone and [Gb] alone
[Ab] Till he the [Gm] young girl did betray
_ _ _ [C] Down by the greenwood side _ _
_ _ She _ [Gm] leaned her back against a [D] thorn
[C] _ It was [Fm] all [Cm]
alone and [C] alone
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_ _ She took her pen [Gm] [D] knife keen and [Cm] sharp
_ It was all alone and alone
[D] _ _ And [Ab] _ pierced those two [Gm] babes to the _ _ heart
Down by the greenwood side
She washed the pen [D] knife in the _
[Cm] _ brook
It was all alone and alone
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[D] But [Ab] the more she [Gm] washed the redder it looked _ _
[C] Down by the greenwood side
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[Cm] As _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ she was walking her [F] father's [Cm] house
It was all [Gm] alone and [Gb] alone
She [Ab] spied two [G] babes playing ball _ _ _
[Cm] Down by the greenwood side
Oh [Gm] babes, babes, [D] if you were [Cm] mine
_ It was [Fm] all [Cm] alone and alone _
[Gb] _ [Ab] I'd dress you up [Gm] in silk so fine _ _
[Cm] Down by the greenwood side
_ _ Oh _ [Gm] _
[C] _ _ [Gm] mother dear, when [D] we were _ [Cm] thine
It was all alone and [C] lonely
_ [D] [Ab] You did not treat [Gm] us then so [C] _ [Gm] kind
[Cm] Down by the greenwood side
Oh [Gm] babes, babes, [D] it's you can _ [Cm] tell
It [Gm] was all [D] alone and lonely
[Ab] What kind of death [Gm] I'll have to die
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_ [C] by the greenwood side
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[Cm] Seven _ [Gm] _ years of [D] fish in the flood
[Cm] It was all alone and [Gb] lonely
[Ab] And seven years [G] a bird in the wood
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Down by the greenwood side
Seven years a [Gm] tongue in the [D] morning [Cm] bath
_ It was all alone and [C] lonely
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[Ab] And seven [G] years in the flames of _ hell
[C] Down by the greenwood side
Welcome, _ [Gm] welcome fish [D] in the flood
[Cm] It was all alone and lonely
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[Ab] And welcome, [Gm] welcome bird in the wood
_ _ [Cm] Down by the greenwood side
And welcome [Gm] tongue in [D] the morning [Cm] bell
_ It was all alone and [D] lonely
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[D] [Ab] But God spare me [Gm] from the flames in _ hell
[C] Down by the greenwood side
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