A Drunkard's Child-Jimmie Rodgers

[ti:A Drunkard's Child] [ar:Jimmie Rodgers] [al:Blue Yodel - The Recorded Legacy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Drunkard's Child - Jimmie Rodgers [00:16.45]My father is a drunkard [00:20.76] [00:21.46]My mother she is dead; [00:25.77] [00:26.49]And I am just an orphan child [00:31.52]No place to lay my head; [00:35.52] [00:36.51]All thru this world I wander [00:40.57] [00:41.66]They drive me from their door [00:45.86] [00:46.60]Some day I'll find a welcome [00:50.90] [00:51.63]On Heaven's golden shore [00:56.10] [00:56.76]Now if to me you'll listen [01:00.63] [01:01.59]I'll tell my story sad; [01:05.66] [01:06.54]How drinking rum and gambling [01:10.38]Hell has stole away my dad; [01:15.68] [01:16.42]My mother is in heaven [01:20.26] [01:21.26]Where God and the angels smile; [01:25.75] [01:26.27]And now I know she's watching [01:30.44] [01:31.08]Her lonely orphan child [01:35.68] [01:47.22]We all were once so happy [01:51.40] [01:52.08]And had a happy home; [01:56.13] [01:57.12]Till dad he went to drinking rum [02:02.08]And then he gambled some; [02:06.23] [02:07.01]He left my darling mother [02:11.22] [02:11.85]She died of a broken heart; [02:16.11] [02:16.91]And as I tell my story [02:20.94] [02:21.62]I see your tear-drops start [02:26.18] [02:26.79]Don't weep for me and mother [02:31.15] [02:31.67]Altho' I know 'tis said; [02:35.52] [02:36.67]But try to get someone to cheer [02:41.44]And save my poor lonely dad; [02:45.77] [02:46.52]"I'm awful cold and hungry " [02:51.35]She closed her eyes and sighed; [02:55.64] [02:56.22]Then those who heard her story [03:00.19] [03:00.94]Knew the orphan child has died