Death Of Queen Jane lyrics - 10000 Maniacs

Queen Jane lay in labour

Full nine days or more

Till her women were so tired

They could no longer bare

They could no longer bare

Good women, good women

Good women as ye be

Will you open my right side

And find my baby

And find my baby

Oh no cried the women

That's a thing that never can be

We will send for King Henry

And hear what he may say

And hear what he may say

King Henry was sent for

King Henry did appear

Saying, "What are ail you making?

Your eyes they look so dim

Your eyes they look so dim"

King Henry, King Henry

Will you do one thing for me?

That's to open my right side

And find my baby

And find my baby

"Oh no," cried King Henry

"That's a thing I'll never could do

If I lose the flower of England

I shall lose the branch too

I shall lose the branch too"

There was fiddling and dancing

On the day the babe was born

But poor Queen Jane beloved

Lay cold as the stone

Lay cold as the stone