I Wish Ma Baby- Gouldthorpe (Linc) 1906 Grainger
[Single stanza with music from Percy Grainger Manuscript Collection (PG/5/94).
R. Matteson 2017]
I Wish Ma Baby It Was Born- sung by George Gouldthorpe of Brigg, Lincolnshire on 28 July, 1906. Collector: Percy Grainger.
I wish ma baby it was born,
Set smiling on its diddy's knee,
And I was dead and in my grave,
and the green grass growing over me.