Come All Ye Tender Hearted Lyrics
Come All Ye Tender Hearted - The Stanley Brothers
Come all you tender hearted
Your attention I will call
I'll tell you how it started
Come listen one and all
Last Wednesday night there was a light
Seen shining away out upon a hill
A mother she ran with all her might
While everything was still
She went into a neighbor's house
Some few hundred yards away
She sat down and she talked with them
But she didn't mean to stay
Now don't stay too long dear mother there
For we'll be lonesome here
Well I'll give some liniment she said
Then I'll return again
But you know when she started home again
Her house was in a flames
She cried oh Lord my babies
They're gone
And I'm the one that's to blame
She cried oh Lord how sad they sleep
Wrapped up in a red hot flame
She burst in all asunder then
And the flames they rolled over her head
Their little bones they lay there on the ground
They both lay face to face
And each other they did entwine
And each other they did embrace
Come all you tender hearted
Your attention I will call
I'll tell you how it started
Come listen one and all