A rather comedown version used by my mother and her friends for a dancing game (no details) in the 1920s, at Agecroft west of Manchester. A dreadful retribution for illicit sex and child murder becomes a safety warning about the use of knives:

There was a lady dressed in green
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There was a lady dressed in green
Down by the river side-o

She had a baby in her arms
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She had a baby in her arms
Down by the river side-o

She had a penknife in her hand
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She had a penknife in her hand
Down by the river side-o

She stuck the knife in the baby's arm
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She stuck the knife in the baby's arm
Down by the river side-o