Letra de Three little babes

There was a knight and a lady bright
And three little babes had she
She sent them away to a far country
To learn their grammary

They hadn´t been gone but a very short time
About three months and a day
When the lark spread over this whole wide world
And taken those babes away

It was on a cold, cold Christmas night
When everything was still
And she saw her three little babes come runnin´
Come runnin´ down the hill

She set them a table of bread and wine
That they might drink and eat
She spread them a bed of a winding sheet
That they might sleep so sweet

´Take it off, take it off!´, cried the eldest one
´Take it off, take it off!´, cried she
´For I shan´t stay here in this wicked world
When there´s a better one for me´

´Cold clods, cold clods inside my bed
Cold clods, down at my feet
The tears my dear mother shed for me
Would wet my winding sheet´

´The tears my dear mother shed for me
Would wet my winding sheet
Would wet my winding sheet´