Help correct this transcription. I've put a question mark where I'm not sure of what I hear. Thank you. R

Buell Kazee, Legendary Kentucky Ballad Singer, British Archive Of Country Music BACM CD D 027; ballad recorded in 1928

There was a lady and a lady gay
Of children she had three
She sent them away to the North Countree
For to learn their grammaree

They had not been that (?) very long
Scarcely six months and a day
(?) Till death, cold death (?), came hasting along
And stole those babes away

It was just about old Christmas time
The night being cold and clear
She looked and she saw her three little babes
Come runnin' home to her

She's (?) set a table both long and wide
And on it she put bread and wine -
Come eat, come drink, my three little babes
Come eat, come drink of mine

We want none of your bread, mother
Neither we do want your wine
For yonder stands our Saviour dear
And to Him we must resign

Green grass grows over our heads, mother
Cold clay is under our feet
And every tear you shed for us
It wets our winding-sheet