Here are chords and lyrics as promised. Hrothgar was pretty close (close enough for folk music?). BG

DON'T CRY LADY
(Anon.)

CHO:

C
Don't cry lady, I'll buy your God damn violets,

.................D7...........G7
Don't cry lady, your pencils, too.

..C........C7....F..............D7......G7
Don't cry lady, take off those colored glasses.

C..E7...Am.......D7.......G7..C
Hello, mother, I knew it was you.

.........C
Hooray, hooray, my father's gonna get shot.

.....................................G7
Hooray, hooray, that dirty, drunken sot.

.....C...........C7....................F.....F#dim.
For he was very mean to me when I was just a tot,

C................m.............D7.G7....C
Hooray, they're gonna shoot my fa-a-a-ther. CHO:

Hooray, hooray, my uncle's gonna get hung.
Hooray, hooray, that dirty, drunken bum.
For he was very mean to me when I was very young,
Hooray, they're gonna hang my uncle. CHO:

Hooray, hooray, my broher's gonna get hurt.
Hooray, hooray, that dirty, sex pervert.
For he was very free with me when I was just a squirt,
Hooray, they're gonna hurt my broher. CHO:

Hooray, hooray, my cousin's gonna get destroyed.
Hooray, hooray, that no good anthropoid.
For he would always try on me the things he'd read in Freud.
Hooray, they're gonna wreck my cousin. CHO:

From The Panic is On, compiled by Jerry Silverman

Roger in Baltimore