My great grandma and my grandpa and grandma sang "Babes in the Wood" to me and my mother. I have since sang the same to each baby or little child I rock to sleep: From Kay Laster, Dickens, Texas

Babes in the Wood

Oh, don't you remember
A long time ago
Two poor little babies
Their names I don't know
Were stolen away,
One bright summer day
And lost in the woods
I've heard people say

And when it was night
So sad was their plight
The moon had gone down
and the stars gave no light
They sobbed and they sighed
They bitterly cried
Poor babes in the woods
They laid down and died

And when they were dead
The robins so red
Brought strawberry leaves
and over them spread
And all the night long
They sang them a song
Poor babes in the woods
Are now dead and gone...