Old Man's Lament

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born February 20, 1941) is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She recorded one country album, I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, in Nashville, and her Academy Award-winning "Up Where We Belong" is considered "pure pop."

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One mornin' out walkin,
Out grovin' and ramblin'.
Down by the cold river
I joggled along.

I heard an old man
Making sad lamentation
About rockin' a cradle
And a child not his own.

Hi ho. Hi ho.
Hie there my laddie.
Lie easy, lie easy.
Perhaps your own daddyight never be known.

And it's weary I am
With weepin' and a-sobbin'
And rockin' a cradle
And a child not my own.

I'm sorry my neighbors,
I've married this fair one.
She favors the neighbors
And none of her own.

She goes out every night,
Goes to balls, goes to parties.
Leaves me rockin' the cradle,
And it's none of my own.

Hi ho. Hi ho.
Hie there, my laddie.
Lie easy, lie easy.
Perhaps your own daddy might never be known.

And it's weary I am
With weepin' and a-sobbin'
And rockin' a cradle,
And it's none of my own.

So come all ye young men
Who want to get married.
Take my advice,
Leave the womens alone.

For it's by the Lord, Harry,
If ever ye marry,
She'll leave you rockin' the cradle,
And it's none of your own.

Hi ho. Hi ho.
Hie there, my laddie.
Lie easy, lie easy.
Perhaps your own daddy might never be known.

And it's weary I am
With weepin' and a-sobbin'
And rockin' a cradle
And it's none of my own.

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