I Cried

When I was a little girl

My mother died

My father took himself

A new bride

My father didn't know

His new wife's ways

I was like a servant

Scrubbed the floor every day

I cried

I cried

How I missed my mother

The only one who me loved

As I upon my knees

On the floor would scrub

My stepmother would only

Give me scraps to eat

Whenever she felt like it

She used to me beat

I cried

I cried

My father couldn't see

The evil of his wife

The misery with which

She drove my life

My father was a weak man

My father he was weak

And of my evil stepmother

Not a bad word I could speak

I cried

I cried

I cried over my mother's grave

I cried every night

My tears flowed over it

Until the daylight

And if my stepmother saw

Any of this

She would laugh in my face

And she would take the piss

I cried

I cried