Nobody's Child-Hank Snow

[ti:Nobody's Child] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:25 More Country Music Heartbreakers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Nobody's Child - Hank Snow [00:08.65]I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day [00:14.58] [00:15.85]And stop there for a moment [00:19.26]Just to watch the children play [00:22.41] [00:23.66]Alone a boy was standing [00:26.37] [00:27.36]And when I asked him why [00:30.35] [00:31.29]He turned with eyes that couldn't see [00:35.19]And he began to cry [00:37.82] [00:39.21]I'm nobody's child I'm nobody's child [00:45.84] [00:47.34]I'm like a flower just growing wild [00:53.66] [00:55.03]No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smiles [01:01.97] [01:02.85]Nobody wants me I'm nobody's child [01:08.74] [01:10.68]People come for children [01:13.11] [01:13.92]And take them to their own [01:16.68] [01:17.79]But they all seem to pass me by [01:21.58]And leave me here alone [01:23.82] [01:25.57]I know they'd like to take me [01:28.38] [01:29.31]But when they see I'm blind [01:32.06] [01:33.18]They always take some other child [01:37.22]And I am left behind [01:39.46] [01:40.89]No mother's arms to hold me [01:44.71]Or soothe me when I cry [01:47.45] [01:48.59]Sometimes it gets so lonely here [01:52.58]I wish that I could die [01:55.39] [01:56.41]I'd walk the streets of heaven [01:59.18] [01:59.99]Where all the blinds can see [02:04.16]And just like for the other kids [02:08.01]There'd be a home for me [02:11.48] [02:13.17]I just can't seem to understand [02:15.35] [02:16.79]Why the folks all pass me by [02:19.06] [02:20.86]'Cause I know that it's true that God takes [02:24.06]Little blind children with him in the sky [02:26.68] [02:28.80]And they tell me that I'm oh so pretty [02:30.86] [02:31.98]And they seem to like my big curls of gold [02:35.31] [02:36.18]But then they take some other little child [02:39.41]And I'm left here all alone [02:41.32] [02:44.03]I'm nobody's child I'm nobody's child [02:50.22] [02:51.85]I'm like a flower just growing wild [02:58.37] [02:59.80]No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smiles [03:06.35] [03:07.60]Nobody wants me I'm nobody's child