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Crow On The Cradle
Sydney Carter Copyright Stainer & Bell, Ltd. As recorded by Caeli's Muse This is one of the most haunting melodies. If anyone knows the history of this song, please share it.
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The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn
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Now is the time for a child to be born
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He'll cry for the moon and he'll laugh at the sun
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If he's a boy, then he'll carry a gun
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Sang the crow on the cradleDm
If it should happen that our baby's a girl
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Never you mind if her hair doesn't curl
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With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
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And a bomber above her wherever she goes
Gm Dm
Sang the crow on the cradleDm
Rockabye baby the dark and the light
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Somebody's baby is born for a fight
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Rockabye baby, the white and the black
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Somebody's baby is not coming back
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Sang the crow on the cradle
Gm Dm
Sang the crow on the cradleDm
Bring me a gun and I'll shoot that bird dead
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That's what your mother and father once said
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Hushaby little one, why do you weep
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We've got a toy that will put you to sleep
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Sang the crow on the cradleDm
Your mother and father, they'll scrape and they'll save
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To build you a coffin and dig you a grave
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Crow on the cradle, oh what should I do
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That is a choice that I leave up to you
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Sang the crow on the cradle
Gm Dm Gm Dm
Sang the crow on the cradle.
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