There was an old woman and she lived in a wood And she had a baby three months old And she had a pen - knife long and sharp Then she stuck the pen - knife in a baby's heart Then the three loud knocks come a knocking at the door There was two policeman and a man Well they took her away and they put her in a jail Then they put a rope around her neck Then they pull the rope and she got hang And that was the end of the woman in the wood And that was the and of a baby too down by the river Soria