Oh, do you remember, a long time ago,
Those two little babies, their names I don’t know
They were stolen away on a bright summer’s day
And left in a wood, so I’ve heard folks say.
Pretty babes in the wood
Pretty babes in the wood
Oh, don’t you remember
Those babes in the wood
And when it was night so sad was their plight
The sun went down and the moon gave no light
They sobbed and they sighed and they bitterly cried
Those 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
And when they were dead the robins so red
Brought strawberry leaves and over them spread
And all the night long on the branches they throng
They mourned and they whistled 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
British/American traditional folk song