Blind Child Lyrics - Dirt Farmer - Levon Helm

They tell me, Father, that tonight 

You'll wed another bride 

That you will clasp her in your arms 

Where my dear Mother died 

(Verse 2) 

They say her name is Mary, too 

The name my Mother wore 

But tell me father is she kind 

As the one you loved before 

(Verse 3) 

And is her step so soft and light 

Her voice so meek and mild 

And tell me father will she love 

Your blind and helpless child 

(Violin solo) 

(Verse 4) 

Her picture is resting on the shelf 

Her books are lying near 

And there's the harp her fingers touched 

And there's her vacant chair 

(Verse 5) 

The chair whereby beside I knelt 

To say my evening prayer 

Oh Father, do not bid me come 

I could not meet her there 

(Verse 6) 

Well his head fell back and his eyes were closed 

His little dark curly hair 

And the very last words that the blind child spoke, 

"There'll be no blind ones there." 

And the very last words that the blind child spoke, 

"There'll be no blind ones there."