Over The Hills To The Poor House Lyrics - Flatt And Scruggs

Over The Hill To The Poor House 

1. Oh how can it be they have driven 

Their father so helpless and old 

Oh God may their crimes be forgiven 

To perish out here in the cold 

Oh heaven I'm sad and I'm weary 

See the tears how they course down my cheek 

This world is so lonely and weary 

My heart for relief plainly seeks 

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I'm old I'm helpless and feeble 

And the days of my youth have gone by 

And it's over the hill to the poor house 

I must wander alone there to die 

2. Long years since Mary was taken 

My faithful affectionate wife 

Since then I've been alone and forsaken 

The light has died out of my life 

Oh me on the doorstep up yonder 

I've set with my babe's on my knee 

No father was happy or fonder 

Than I of my little ones three 

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3.The boys were so rosy and cheerful 

and Lily with chatter so sweet 

God knows how their father has loved them 

But they've driven him out on the street 

I gave them the place where I lived on 

A deed to the farm and more 

I gave them the house they were borned in 

And now I am turned from its door 

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