(Trad)
Chorus:
Oh dear rue the day ever I married
How I wish I was single again
With this weeping and wailing and rocking the cradle
And rocking the baby that's none of my own
I am a young man from the town of Kiandra
I married a young woman to comfort my home
She goes out and she leaves me and cruelly deceives me
And leaves me with a baby that's none of my own
While I'm at work my wife's on the ran tan
On the ran tan with some other young man
She goes out and she leaves me and cruelly deceives me
And leaves me with a baby that's none of my own
Now all you young men with a fancy to marriage
Be sure you leave those flash girls alone
For by the lord Harry if one you should marry
They'll leave you with a baby that's none of your own
(as sung by The Ian Campbell Folk Group)