The Ian Campbell Folk Group - Rocking the Cradle lyrics

Version One I am a young man from the town of Kiandra I married a young woman to comfort my home She goes out and she leaves me and truly deceives me She leaves me with a baby that's none o' me own Oh dear, I rue the day ever I married How I wish I was single again With this weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle And rocking the baby that's none o' me own While I'm at work, my wife's on the rantan On the rantan with some other young man She goes out and she leaves me and truly deceives me And leaves me with a baby that's none o' me own Now all you young men with a fancy to marry Be sure you leave those flash gals alone Or by the Lord Harry, if one you should marry They'll leave you with a baby that's none o' your own Version Two On a bright summer's evening I chanced to go roving Down by the clear river I rollicked along I heard an old man making sad lamentation He was rocking the cradle and the child not his own Cho: Hi ho, hi ho, my laddie lie aisy For perhaps your own daddy might never be known I'm sitting and sighing and rocking the cradle And nursin' the baby that's none of my own When first that I married your inconstant mother I thought myself lucky to be blessed with a wife But for my misfortune, sure I was mistaken She's proved both a curse and a plague on my life She goes out every night to a ball or a party And leaves me here rockin' he cradle alone The innocent laddie he calls me his daddy But little he knows that he's none of my own Now come all ye young men that's inclined to get married Take my advice and let the women alone For by the Lord Harry, if ever you marry They'll leave you with a baby that's none of your own (Or "and swear it's your own")