Little Tom-Ferlin Husky

[ti:Little Tom] [ar:Ferlin Husky] [al:The Very Best of Ferlin Husky, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Tom - Ferlin Husky [00:10.26]Little tom what will be your fate [00:17.12] [00:21.05]Little tom will you be someone great [00:28.74] [00:31.23]Do you know right from wrong [00:35.72] [00:36.65]Are they teaching you at home [00:40.64] [00:41.91]Or have they turn you loose to roam little tom [00:49.87] [00:53.85]I walked into a cafe and [00:56.22]Ordered myself something to eat [00:57.79] [00:58.64]When a little boy walked in [00:59.97] [01:00.66]With his shoes half off his feet [01:02.46] [01:03.42]He said buy a paper mister [01:05.45] [01:06.27]I said how old are you son [01:08.12] [01:09.31]Seven sir when my papers are sold [01:11.71]I'll be on my way home [01:13.27] [01:14.16]What your name [01:14.75] [01:15.63]Thomas but everybody calls me little tom [01:18.37] [01:19.69]They named me after my daddy [01:21.21] [01:21.97]But they say I look like my mama [01:23.62] [01:24.87]I said why it's almost midnight son [01:27.01]You should be home asleep [01:28.31] [01:29.50]I know it but I wanna get me a bicycle [01:31.94] [01:33.05]And I gotta help mama buy [01:34.18]Something to eat my daddy's pretty mean to us [01:38.10]And he spends most of his [01:39.31]Money for wine he don't hold a job like other men [01:42.95] [01:44.31]He gets fired all time [01:46.66] [01:47.88]I said have Something to eat [01:49.92]Aren't you hungry son [01:50.77] [01:52.64]He said I guess a little bit [01:54.75]I believe I'll have a hamburger and a glass [01:57.10]Of milk to go with it [01:58.40] [01:58.98]I said is that enough [02:01.00] [02:01.87]He said make it two cause I ain't eat since noon [02:04.92] [02:06.23]Where do you live son [02:07.22] [02:07.98]On main street sir [02:09.08] [02:09.86]There's six of us living in one room [02:11.50] [02:12.32]There's me and my three brothers and my mommy and my dad [02:14.65] [02:15.83]But someday I'm gonna buy mommy a big house [02:17.98]If I have to turn out bad [02:19.54] [02:20.88]My appetite left me [02:21.93] [02:22.67]As I sat there watching him [02:24.06] [02:24.76]And I thought he's just one of thousands [02:26.68]That's brought up in a home of sin [02:28.61] [02:29.60]Where their parents abused their children [02:31.25]And forget to maker the all mankind [02:33.35] [02:34.63]And then wondered why there's juvenile delinquency [02:37.74]When they are at fault most of the time [02:39.80] [02:41.48]I bit my lip and fought back tears [02:43.85]As I watched the little guy leave the cafe [02:46.05] [02:46.76]And I wondered how many more children [02:48.57] [02:49.57]Would be brought up that way [02:51.61] [03:01.03]Little tom what will be your fate [03:07.93] [03:11.34]Little tom will you be someone great