A Drunkards Child

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[Verse 1]
My father is a drunkard, my mother 
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she is dead
And I am just an orphan child, no 
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place to lay my head
All through this world I wander, 
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they drive me from their door
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Someday I'll find a welcome, on 
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heaven's golden shore

[Verse 2]
Now if to me you'll listen, I'll 
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tell a story sad
How drinking rum and the gambling 
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hell, have stoled away my dad
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My mother she is in heaven, where 
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God and the angels smile
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And now I know she's watching, her 
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lonely orphan child

[Break]
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[Verse 3]
We were once so happy and had a 
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happy home
'Till daddy he went to drinking rum 
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and then he gambled some
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He left my darling mother, she died
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 of a broken heart
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And as I tell my story, I see your
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 teardrops start

[Verse 4]
Don't weep for me and mother, 
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although I know it is sad
But try to get someone to cheer and 
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save my poor lonely dad
I'm awful cold and hungry, she 
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closed her eyes and sighed
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Then those who heard her story, 
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knew the orphan child had died

[Otro]
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