Drunkard's Child Lyrics

My father is a drunkard, my mother she is dead

And I am just an orphan child, no place to lay my head

All through this world I wander, they drive me from their door

Someday I'll find a welcome on heaven's golden shore.

Now if to me you'll listen I'll tell a story sad

How drinking rum and the gambling hell have stole away my dad

My mother she is in heaven where God and the angels smile

And now I know she's watching her lonely orphan child.

--- Instrumental ---Hank Snow - Drunkard's Child - http://motolyrics.com/hank-snow/drunkards-child-lyrics.html

(We were once so happy and had a happy home

Till daddy went to drinking rum and then he gambled some)

He left my darling mother she died of a broken heart

And as I tell my story I can see your teardrops start.

Don't weep for me and mother although I know it is sad

But try to find someone to cheer and save my poor lonely dad

I'm awful cold and hungry she closed her eyes and sighed

Then those who heard her story knew the orphan child had died...