A Drunkard's Child

A Drunkard's Child - Ernest Tubb

My father is a drunkard

My mother she is dead

And I am just an orphan child

No place to lay my head

All through this world I wander

They drive me from their door

Someday I'll find a welcome

On heaven's golden shore

Now if to me you'll listen I'll tell a story sad

How drinking rum and the gambling hell

Have stole away my dad

My mother is in heaven

Where God and the angels smile

And now I know she's watching

Her lonely orphan child

We always once so happy and had a happy home

Till daddy went to drinking rum

And then he gambled some

He left my darling mother

She died of a broken heart

And as I tell my story

I see your teardrops start

Don't weep for me and mother

Although I know it is sad

But try to get someone to cheer

And save my poor lonely dad

I'm awful cold and hungry

She closed her eyes and sighed

Then those who heard her story

Knew the orphan child had died