Drunkard's Child Lyrics - Hank Snow

My father is a drunkard my mother she is dead 

And I am just an orphan child no place to lay my head 

All through this world I wander they drive me from their door 

Someday I'll find a welcome on heaven's golden shore 

Now if to me you'll listen I'll tell a story sad 

How drinking rum and the gambling hell have stole away my dad 

My mother she is in heaven where God and the angels smile 

And now I know she's watching her lonely orphan child 

[ vibes - guitar ] 

(We were once so happy and had a happy home 

Till daddy went to drinking rum and then he gambled some) 

He left my darling mother she died of a broken heart 

And as I tell my story I can see your teardrops start 

Don't weep for me and mother although I know it is sad 

But try to find someone to cheer and save my poor lonely dad 

I'm awful cold and hungry she closed her eyes and sighed 

Then those who heard her story knew the orphan child had died