She's leaned her back against an oak, All alone and a'lonely O', She's pushed, and pushed till her back's nearly broke. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. She's laid her head against a thorn, All alone and a'lonely O', The two bonniest babes that ever were born. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. She's went back to her fathers castle hall, All alone and a'lonely O' She-e was the smallest maid of them all. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. She looks over her father's castle wall, All alone and a'lonely O', Two bonny babies a' playin' at a ball. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. O, dear babies if you were mine, All alone and a'lonely O', I'd give you bread, and I'd give you wine. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. O Dear Mother, when we were thine, All alone and a'lonely O', 'Round our necks you pulled the twine. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. Now we are in the heaven so High, All alone and a'lonely O', And in hells fires you will die. Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o. Only a mother that's ever lost a child, All alone and a'lonely O', Knows the grief the heart's open (wide?). Down in the bonny greenwood side e-o.