There's A Mother Always Waiting At Home Lyrics - Personal File - Johnny Cash

"So, you're going to leave the old home, Jim 

Today you're going away 

So, you're going among the city folks to dwell" 

So spoke a kind old mother 

To her boy one summer day 

"If your mind's made up that way, I wish you well 

The old home will be lonesome 

We'll miss you when you go 

The birds won't sing so sweet when you're not nigh 

But if you get in trouble, Jim 

Just write and let us know" 

She spoke these words and then she said goodbye 

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CHORUS: 

If sickness overtakes you 

Or old companions shake you 

As through this world you wander all alone 

When friends you haven't any 

In your pocket not a penny 

There's a mother always awaiting you at home 

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Ten years later to this village 

Came a stranger no one knew 

His steps were halt and ragged clothes he wore 

The little children laughed at him 

As down the lane he trod 

At last he stopped before a cottage door 

He gently knocked, no sound he heard 

He thought, "Can she be dead?" 

But then he heard a voice well known to him 

Was his mother's voice, but her hair had silvered 

By the touch of time 

And she said, "Thank God, they've sent me home my Jim" 

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