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Rockin The Cradle lyrics

Rockin The Cradle
On a bright summer s evening I chanced to go roving
Down by the clear river I rollicked along.
I heard an old man making sad lamentation;
He was rocking the cradle and the child not his own.
cho: Hi ho, hi ho, my laddie lie aisy
     For perhaps your own daddy might never be known.
     I m sitting and sighing and rocking the cradle,
     And nursin the baby that s none of my own.
When first that I married your inconstant mother
I thought myself lucky to be blessed with a wife.
But for my misfortune, sure I was mistaken
She s proved both a curse and a plague on my life.
She goes out every night to a ball or a party
And leaves me here rockin he cradle alone.
The innocent laddie he calls me his daddy
But little he knows that he s none of my own.
Now come all ye young men that s inclined to get married
Take my advice and let the women alone.
For by the Lord Harry, if ever you marry
They ll leave you with a baby that s none of your own.
                              (or "and swear it s your own".)
Recorded by Clancys, Ian Cambell Folk Group, Ed Trickett, Buffy
     Ste. Marie
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