[ti:A Drunkards Child] [ar:Hank Snow] [al:Save the Last Song for Love (Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Drunkard's Child - Hank Snow [00:03.25]Written by:Andrew Jenkins/Jimmie Rodgers [00:06.50]My father is a drunkard [00:12.14]My mother she is dead [00:17.72]And I am just an orphan child [00:23.64]No place to lay my head [00:29.37]All thru this world I wander [00:35.06]They drive me from their door [00:41.21]Some day I'll find a welcome [00:46.51]On heaven's golden shore [00:52.12]Now if to me you'll listen [00:57.90]I'll tell my story sad [01:03.54]How drinking rum and the gambling hell [01:09.07]Has stole away my dad [01:14.92]My mother she is in heaven [01:20.67]Where God and the angels smile [01:26.61]And now I know she's watching [01:31.96]Her lonely orphan child [02:24.12]We all were once so happy [02:29.41]And had a happy home [02:35.17]Till dad he went to drinking rum [02:40.98]And then he gambled some [02:46.78]He left my darling mother [02:52.58]She died of a broken heart [02:58.67]And as I tell my story [03:03.99]I see your tear drops start [03:09.60]Don't weep for me and mother [03:15.38]All thru I know it is said [03:21.01]But try to find someone to cheer [03:26.76]And save my poor lonely dad [03:32.40]I'm awful cold and hungry [03:38.05]She closed her eyes and sighed [03:43.91]Then those who heard her story [03:49.33]Knew the orphan child has died