Little Blossom-Dolly Parton

[ti:Little Blossom] [ar:Dolly Parton] [al:American Anthology: Dolly Parton] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Little Blossom - Dolly Parton [00:06.31]Oh dear I'm so tired and so lonesome [00:10.31] [00:11.65]I wonder why mommy don't come [00:16.35] [00:17.02]She told me to shut up my blue eyes [00:22.54]And before I woke up she'd be home [00:27.11] [00:28.03]She said she was going to see Grandma [00:32.90] [00:33.52]Who lives by the river so wide [00:37.74] [00:39.06]And I guess my mommy's feeling bad [00:43.69] [00:44.39]And perhaps she won't be home tonight [00:48.87] [00:49.94]So I guess I'll go down and meet daddy [00:54.56] [00:55.35]Perhaps he has stopped at the store [00:59.80] [01:00.78]It's a great big store full of bottles [01:05.77] [01:06.47]And I wish he wouldn't go there anymore [01:10.40] [01:11.81]So out in the night with the baby [01:16.72] [01:17.27]Her little heart beating with pride [01:21.88] [01:22.66]'Til her tired feet entered the gin palace [01:28.12]With music all radiant with light [01:33.49]Oh daddy she cried as she reached him [01:39.07]I think that the music's so sweet [01:43.80] [01:44.51]But it's almost suppertime daddy [01:49.87]Little blossom wants something to eat [01:54.22] [01:55.44]A moment his blurred eyes gazed wildly [02:00.75]Down into her face sweet and fair [02:06.20]And as the demon possessed him [02:11.67]He grasped at the back of a chair [02:17.05]A moment a second was over [02:22.57]He lifted her fair golden head [02:27.99]A moment the baby's left trembled [02:33.53]Then poor little blossom was dead