ROCKING THE CRADLE



I am a young man from the town of Ciandra

I married a young woman to comfort my home

She goes out and she leaves me and truly deceives me

She leaves me with a baby that's none o' me own



Oh dear, I rue the day ever I married

How I wish I was single again

With this weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle

And rocking the baby that's none o' me own



While I'm at work, my wife's on the rantan

On the rantan with some other young man

She goes out and she leaves me and truly deceives me

And leaves me with a baby that's none o' me own



Now all you young men with a fancy to marry

Be sure you leave those flash gals alone

Or by the Lord Harry, if one you should marry

They'll leave you with a baby that's none o' your own



recorded by the Ian Campbell Folk Group

@marriage @bastard

see also ROCKCRAD

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