The Tiger Lillies - I Cried lyrics

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