Mother's Lament  Cream

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DISRAELI GEARS - CREAM
transcribed by Aria76


 MOTHER'S LAMENT  


Are we rolling?  A one, a two, a three, a four...


  [D]                    [G]
A mother was washing her baby one night;
    [A]                   [D]
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.
    [D]                     [G]
The mother was poor and the baby was thin;
      [A]                   [D]
'Twas naught but a skeleton covered with skin.


    [D]                        [G] 
The mother turned 'round for a soap off the rack.
        [A]              [D]
She was only a moment but when she turned back
    [D]                   [G]
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,
     [A]                           [D]
"Oh, where has my baby gone?"  The angels replied:


         [D]                    [G]
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole.
         [A]                    [D]
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug.
    [G]                      [D]
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,
   [A]              [A7]        [D] [A] [A7] [D]
He should have been washed in a jug, in  a   jug.



     [D]               [G]
Your baby is perfectly happy;
   [A]                  [D]
He won't need a bath anymore.
   [G]                        [D]
He's a-muckin' about with the angels above,
    [G]      [A]  [D]
Not lost but gone before.


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