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Woe's me / The wood's not hewn from the tree | 27-Jun-12
Woe's me
The wood's not hewn from the tree
That's to cradle the babe
That's to sire the man
Who can lay me
says the ghost in the old ballad
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This is the "Song of the Cauld Lad of Hylton" and can be found in, among other places, The School Bag anthology edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. This version is:- Wae's me, wae's me, The acorn is not yet Fallen from the tree That's to grow the wood That's to make the cradle That's to rock the bairn That's to grow to a man That's to lay me. Anne Bingley |
