Mother`s Lament

Clapton / Bruce / Baker

Are we rollin`? A one, a two, a free, a four...

A mother was washing her baby one night
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite
The mother was poor and the baby was thin
`Twas naught but an skelingtin covered with skin

The mother turned `round for a soap off the rack
She was only a moment but when she turned back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried
"Oh, where `as my baby gone?" The angels replied:

Oh, your baby has gone down the plug `ole
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin
He should `ave been washed in a jug (in a jug)

Your baby is perfectly happy
He won`t need a bath anymore
He`s a-muckin` about with the angels above
Not lost but gone before