Cruel Mother (short) Lyrics & Tabs by Maddy Prior

Cruel Mother (short)

guitar chords lyrics

Maddy Prior

Sweet juices, crushed from the fruit run over her lips,
Down her breasts, down her body, down between her hips.
Strong legs wrap around a tree, squeezes with her thighs.

Breathes life through roots with quiet sighs.
A child she bears beneath its shade with labour hard and long.
A moment's tenderness, a moment's passion, short and sweet the song.
She cradles, then buries it beneath the earth, under a drowning moon.
Nourishment, blood and bone, for the roots to find.
The cruel mother lives in the grove, dancing her life away,
Sweet as the juice on a soldier's lips on a summer's day.