Now don't you remember, a long time ago,
Those two little babies, their names I don't know?
They strayed away one bright summer's day,
These two little babies got lost on their way.

Pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood
Oh, don't you remember those babes in the wood?

Now the day being long and the night coming on
These two little babies laid under a stone
They wept and they cried, they sobbed and they sighed
These two little babies they laid down and died

Pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood
Oh, don't you remember those babes in the wood?

Now the robins so red, oh swiftly they sped
They spread out their wide wings and over them laid
And all the day long on the branches they thronged
They sweetly did whistle and this was their song

Pretty babes in the wood, pretty babes in the wood
Oh, don't you remember those babes in the wood?