Lost in a Wood

My dears, don’t you know how a long time ago

There were two little babies, their names I don’t know

They were stolen away on a bright summer’s day

And lost in a wood, as I’ve heard people say

Now beneath the blue sky and among the trees high

They gathered wild flowers and heard the birds cry

Then on blackberries fed and strawberries red

And when they were weary, ‘We’ll go home,’ they said

Pretty babes in the wood, sweet babes in the wood

And it’s oh, the sad tale of the babes in the wood

And when it was night, so sad was their plight

For the sun it went down and the stars gave no light

They wept and they cried, they sobbed and they sighed

And long before morning they lay down and died

Pretty babes in the wood, sweet babes in the wood

And it’s oh, the sad tale of the babes in the wood

And when they were dead, the robin so red

Brought strawberry leaves and all over them laid

And all they day long, the green branches among

They sweetly did whistle, and this was their song

Pretty babes in the wood, sweet babes in the wood

And it’s oh, the sad tale of the babes in the wood