My Mother(Mable Moss Reynolds) sang that song to me as far back as I can remember.I know it is very old her Mother sang it to her when she was a little girl.(she is 81 now)My Sister and I have taught it to our children and our children to their children.Babes in the Woods

Oh say do you now how a long time ago
two little babes their names I dont know
Were stolen away on a bright summers day
and left in the woods I've heard people say

and when it was night so sad was there plight
the sun went down and the moon gave no light
they sobbed and they sighed and bitterly cried
and the two little babes they laid down and died

and when they were dead the robins so red
took straberry leaves and over them spread
and all the night long they sang them this song
poor babes in the wood poor babes in the wood

This song will stay with me til the day I die.