Three Little Babes chords by Patty Loveless, The Chieftains

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Verse 1
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There was a night in Lady Bride
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And three little bays had she
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She sent   them away to a far country
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To learn their grammar read
They hadn't been gone
but a very short time
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About three months and a day
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Till the Lord call over this
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whole wide world
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And take those babes away
It was on a dark, cold Christmas night
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When everything was still
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She saw her three little
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birds come running
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Come running down the hill
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She spread a table of bread and wine
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So they might drink and eat
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She spread a bed of winding sheep
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That they might sleep so sweet
Take it off, take it off,
ride the old and the strong
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Take it off, take it off said she
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I can't stay here in this wide
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wicked world
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There's a man, one for me
Cold clods, cold clods down by my side
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Cold clothes down at  my feet
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The tears my dear mother shed for me
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Would wet my wind
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ing sheet
Being