Dreadful Memories

Dreadful Memories - Aunt Molly Jackson

Dreadful memories how they linger

How they pain my precious soul

Little children sick and hungry

Sick and hungry weak and cold

Little children cold and hungry

Without any food at all to eat

They had no clothes to put on their bodies

They had no shoes to put on their feet

Dreadful memories how they linger

How they fill my heart with pain

Oh how hard I've tried to forget them

But I find it all in vain

I can't forget them little babies

With golden hair as soft as silk

Slowly dying from starvation

They parents could not give them milk

I can't forget them coal miners' children

That starved to death for want of milk

While the coal operators and their wives and their children

Were all dressed in jewels and silk

Dreadful memories how they haunt me

As the lonely moments fly

Oh how them little babies suffered

I saw them starve to death and die