Judy Collins Crow on the Cradle song lyrics

The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn

Now is the time for a child to be born

He'll cry at the moon and he'll laugh at the sun

If he's a boy he'll carry a gun

Sang the crow on the cradle

If it should be that our baby's a girl

Never you mind if her hair doesn't curl

Rings on her fingers, bells on her toes

A bomber above her wherever she goes

Sang the crow on the cradle

Rockabye baby, the dark and the light

Somebody's baby is born for a fight

Rockabye baby, the white and the black

Somebody's baby is not coming back

Sang the crow on the cradle

Your mother and father they'll scrape and they'll save

Build you a coffin and dig you a grave

Hush a bye little one, why do you weep?

We have a toy that will put you to sleep

Sang the crow on the cradle

Bring me a gun and I'll shoot that bird dead

That's what your father and mother once said

Crow on the cradle, what shall I do?

That is the thing I leave up to you

Sang the crow on the cradle