[Verse 1] Who freaked me from my gentle rest And hushed me in her arms to rest And on my cheeks sweet kisses pressed My mother [Verse 2] When sleep forsake my open eye Who was it sung sweet hushaby And sealed at me that I should not cry My mother [Verse 3] Who sat there watching my infant head When sleeping on my cradle bed And tears of sweet affliction shed My mother [Verse 4] When pain and sickness made me cry Who gazed upon my heavy eye And watched for fear that I should die My mother [Verse 5] Who loved to see me pleased and gay And taught me sweetly how to play And minded all I had to say My mother
