Lost Baby

Cat. #0910 (MFH #365) - As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on September 16, 1969

VERSE 1
We are sett'n at th table a carvin'
Our little baby's in th woods a starvin'
Poor baby, lost baby,
Poor baby, lost baby-by

VERSE 2
O, don't you hear that rain a fallin'
Our little babes in th woods a squallin'
Poor baby, lost baby
Poor baby, lost baby-by

VERSE 3
O don't you hear th horns a blowin'
They have found it, Lordy I'm a goin'
Poor baby, lost baby
Poor baby, lost baby-by

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