Rockin' The Cradle chords by David Hammond

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Verse 1
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It was the other night, dear,
I chanced to go roving
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Down by the clear river I jogged along
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I heard an old man making
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sad lamentation
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About rocking the cradle
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in the child not his own
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Hey -ho, hey -ho, my laddy Lisey
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For perhaps your own dada
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will never be known
For it's seeing and sighing
and rocking the cradle
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And nursing the baby
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that's none of my own
She goes out every night
to a ball or a kelly,
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And she leaves me here
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rockin' the creddle alone.
And by the law Harry, if ever you marry,
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They'll leave you here rockin'
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the creddle alone.
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Hey ho, hey ho, my laddy Lisey
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For perhaps your own dada
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will never be known
For seeing and sighing
and rocking the cradle
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And nursing the baby
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in a child not his own
Come all ye young men
that's inclined to get married,
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Now take my advice and let women alone,
For by the law, Harry,
if ever you marry,
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They'll leave you here
rockin' the credle alone.
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Hey -ho, hey -ho, my laddy -lady,
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For perhaps your own dada
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will never be known,
For sin and sighing
and rocking the cradle,
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And nursing the baby that's none of my own.