Little Tom

Little Tom - Ferlin Husky

Little tom what will be your fate

Little tom will you be someone great

Do you know right from wrong

Are they teaching you at home

Or have they turn you loose to roam little tom

I walked into a cafe and

Ordered myself something to eat

When a little boy walked in

With his shoes half off his feet

He said buy a paper mister

I said how old are you son

Seven sir when my papers are sold

I'll be on my way home

What your name

Thomas but everybody calls me little tom

They named me after my daddy

But they say I look like my mama

I said why it's almost midnight son

You should be home asleep

I know it but I wanna get me a bicycle

And I gotta help mama buy

Something to eat my daddy's pretty mean to us

And he spends most of his

Money for wine he don't hold a job like other men

He gets fired all time

I said have Something to eat

Aren't you hungry son

He said I guess a little bit

I believe I'll have a hamburger and a glass

Of milk to go with it

I said is that enough

He said make it two cause I ain't eat since noon

Where do you live son

On main street sir

There's six of us living in one room

There's me and my three brothers and my mommy and my dad

But someday I'm gonna buy mommy a big house

If I have to turn out bad

My appetite left me

As I sat there watching him

And I thought he's just one of thousands

That's brought up in a home of sin

Where their parents abused their children

And forget to maker the all mankind

And then wondered why there's juvenile delinquency

When they are at fault most of the time

I bit my lip and fought back tears

As I watched the little guy leave the cafe

And I wondered how many more children

Would be brought up that way

Little tom what will be your fate

Little tom will you be someone great