Song information
- Title
- She laid these babes across her lap
- Alternative title
- Cruel mother
- Roud number
- 9
- Collected from
- Bond, Mary Mrs.
- Location
- Quenington
- County
- Gloucestershire
- Collected by
- Williams, Alfred
- Tune
- Date
- Primary source
- WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 2 - Gloucestershire: Williams, A: MS collection No Gl 129
- Secondary source
- Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 26th August, 1916, p 3, Part 43, No. 5: Williams, A: Folk songs of the upper Thames, p 295