Little Blossom-Dolly Parton/Lynn Anderson

[ti:Little Blossom] [ar:Dolly Parton] [al:And Country Friends] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Blossom - Dolly Parton [00:06.32]Oh dear I'm so tired and so lonesome [00:11.75]I wonder why mommy don't come [00:17.31]She told me to shut up my blue eyes [00:23.05]And before I woke up she'd be home [00:28.68]She said she was going to see Grandma [00:34.11]Who lives by the river so wide [00:39.94]And I guess my mommy's feeling bad [00:45.19]And perhaps she won't be home tonight [00:51.07]So I guess I'll go down and meet daddy [00:56.71]Perhaps he has stopped at the store [01:02.46]It's a great big store full of bottles [01:08.01]And I wish he wouldn't go there anymore [01:13.57]So out in the night with the baby [01:19.19]Her little heart beating with pride [01:24.82]'Til her tired feet entered the gin palace [01:30.31]With music all radiant with light [01:35.81]Oh daddy she cried as she reached him [01:41.49]I think that the music's so sweet [01:47.06]But it's almost suppertime daddy [01:52.56]Little blossom wants something to eat [01:58.24]A moment his blurred eyes gazed wildly [02:03.75]Down into her face sweet and fair [02:09.56]And as the demon possessed him [02:15.08]He grasped at the back of a chair [02:20.60]A moment a second was over [02:26.20]He lifted her fair golden head [02:31.73]A moment the baby's left trembled [02:37.36]Then poor little blossom was dead