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Lyrics for Stratton Mountain Tragedy by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Stratton Mountain Tragedy | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 173 | | | | Lyrics: | STRATTON MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY
by Seba Smith
Cold was the mountain's height
Drear
was the pasture wild
As through the darkness of night
A mother wondered with her
child
As through the drifting snow she pressed
The babe was sleeping 'neath her
breast
Bitter blew the chilly winds
Darker hours of night came on
Deeper grew
the drifting snow
Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone
"Oh God," she cried in
accents wild
"If I must perish, save my child"
She took the mantle from her
breast
Bared her bosom to the storm
As round the babe she wrapped her vest
She smiled
to think that it was warm
One cold kiss, one tear she shed
And sank into that snowy
bed
A stranger passing by next day
Spied her 'neath that snowy veil
The frost
of death was in her eye
Her cheek was hard and cold and pale
He took the robe from off the
child
The babe looked up and sweetly smiled
@death @cold @mother
Laws G
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Happened in Vermont in 1821 to Lucy Blake and child Rebecca
recorded by Margaret
MacArthur (full notes)
and Flanders and Brown Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads
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