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