Joan Baez
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In de Engelse Wikipedia staat: "The Wife of Usher's Well" is a traditional ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 79; it is originally from Britain but is also popular in North America. No complete original version has survived, but the song has been 'remade' in America in a cohesive form.
The ballad concerns a woman from Usher's Well, who sends her three sons away, to school in some versions, and a few weeks after learns that they had died. The woman grieves bitterly for the loss of her children, cursing the winds and sea. The song implicitly draws on an old belief that one should mourn a death for a year and a day, for any longer may cause the dead to return......."
There was a lady and a lady gay Of children she had three She sent them away to the North Country To learn their grammaree They'd not been gone but a very short time Scarcely three weeks and a day When death, cruel death, came harkening along And stole those babes away "There is a King in Heaven," she cried "A King of third degree Send back, send back my three little babes This night send them back to me." She made a bed in the uppermost room On it she put a white sheet And over the top a golden spread That they much better might sleep "Take it off, take it off," cried the older one "Take it off, take it off," cried he "For what's to become of this wide wicked world Since sin has first begun." She set a table of linen fine On it she placed bread and wine "Come eat, come drink, my three little babes Come eat, come drink of mine." "We want none of your bread, mother Neither do we want your wine For yonder stands our Savior dear To Him we must resign." "Green grass is over our heads, mother Cold clay is over our feet And every tear you shed for us It wets our winding-sheet."