Mother's Lament
Unknown

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A mother was washing her baby one night
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The youngest of ten, a delicate mite
    G                       C 
The mother was poor and the baby was thin
      D                   G            D   
T'was nawt but a skeleton covered with skin
    G                           C
The mother turned round for the soap from the rack
    D                          G            D       
She weren't gone a minute, but when she got back
    G                     C
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried
     D                            G       D
"Oh, where is my baby?", and the angels replied

D        G                      C
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug hole
     D                      G
Your baby has gone down the plug
    C                        G  
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin
   A                        D  
He shoulda been washed in a jug (in a jug)
     G                 C   
Your baby is perfectly happy
   D                        G  
He won't need no bathin' no more
     C                           G  
He's workin' his way through the sewers not lost
   A                D 
He has just gone on before

     G                      C 
Your baby has gone down the drain pipe
        D                       G  
And the chlorine is bad for his eyes
     C                       G 
He's havin' a swim, and it's healthy for him
   A               D
He needed the exercise

      G                        C    
Don't worry 'bout him, just be happy
      D                       G
For I know he is sufferin' no pain
     C                      G     
Your baby has gone down the plug hole
      A                         D 
Let's hope he don't stop up the drain

     G                 C
Your baby is perfectly happy
   D                    D
He won't need a bath anymore
     C                       G
He's muckin' about with the angels above
    D               G  
Not lost but gone before
