There's A Mother Always Waiting-Johnny Cash

[ti:There's A Mother Always Waitin] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Bootleg, Volume 2: From Memphi] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]There's A Mother Always Waiting - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:07.14]"So you're going to leave the old home Jim [00:11.08]Today you're going away [00:14.33]So you're going among the city folks to dwell" [00:18.43] [00:20.11]So spoke a kind old mother [00:23.43]To her boy one summer day [00:25.87] [00:26.74]"If your mind's made up that way I wish you well [00:31.05] [00:33.24]The old home will be lonesome [00:36.43]We'll miss you when you go [00:39.80]The birds won't sing so sweet when you're not nigh [00:44.26] [00:46.20]But if you get in trouble Jim [00:49.58]Just write and let us know" [00:52.46]She spoke these words and then she said goodbye [00:56.40] [00:59.02]If sickness overtakes you [01:02.37]Or old companions shake you [01:05.63]As through this world you wander all alone [01:10.50] [01:12.13]When friends you haven't any [01:15.31]In your pocket not a penny [01:17.81] [01:18.44]There's a mother always awaiting you at home [01:22.81] [01:34.52]Ten years later to this village [01:38.15]Came a stranger no one knew [01:41.27]His steps were halt and ragged clothes he wore [01:45.66] [01:48.22]The little children laughed at him [01:51.16]As down the lane he trod [01:53.60] [01:54.22]At last he stopped before a cottage door [01:59.16] [02:00.78]He gently knocked no sound he heard [02:04.18]He thought "Can she be dead " [02:07.62]But then he heard a voice well known to him [02:11.38] [02:13.50]Was his mother's voice but her hair had silvered [02:17.56]By the touch of time [02:19.32] [02:19.87]And she said "Thank God they've sent me home my Jim" [02:24.08] [02:26.33]If sickness overtakes you [02:29.72]Or old companions shake you [02:32.79]As through this world you wander all alone [02:37.42] [02:39.18]When friends you haven't any [02:42.36]In your pocket not a penny [02:45.55]There's a mother always awaiting you at home