Well, if that's hers, it's not the version she sang on It's my way!, though she may have changed it later, of course. Here's the version from that LP.

Mick

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OLD MAN'S LAMENT

One morning out walking, out roving and rambling
Down by the cool river I joggled along
I heard an old man making sad lamentation
About rocking the cradle and a child not his own

  Hi-ho, Hi-ho
  Lie there my laddie, lie easy, lie easy
  Perhaps your own daddy might never be known
  And it's weary I am with weeping and sobbing
  And rocking a cradle and a child not my own.

I'm sorry, my neighbours, I've married this fair one
She favours the neighbours and none of her own.
She goes out every night, goes to bars, goes to parties
Leaves me rocking the cradle and it's none of my own.

  Hi-ho, Hi-ho etc...
  Lie there my laddie, lie easy, lie easy
  Perhaps your own daddy might never be known
  And it's weary I am with weeping and sobbing
  And rocking a cradle and it's none of my own.

So come all ye young men who want to get married
Take my advice, leave the womens alone.
For it's by the Lord Harry, if ever you marry,
She'll leave you rocking the cradle and it's none of your own

  Hi-ho, Hi-ho etc...
  Lie there my laddie, lie easy, lie easy
  Perhaps your own daddy might never be known
  And it's weary I am with weeping and sobbing
  And rocking a cradle and it's none of my own.


Source: Buffy Sainte-Marie, LP, It's my way!


The notes( by Maynard Solomom) say: The Old Man's Lament: "...Rocking the cradle and it's none of my own...". This extraordinary song is based on traditional material, the tune being a recent variant of Streets of Laredo. It is so close in message and content to Buffy's style that it is difficult to believe it's not

hers.