ฟังเพลงMother Went A-Walkin'

Mother Went A-Walkin' - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯)

Shall we gather at the river that

Flows by the throne of God

The church doors opened one Sunday

In a little country town

The people all were silent

In the rain that misted down

And an old gray-haired granddad

His shoulders stooped with pain

Was holdin' fast a little boy

Who kept cryin in the rain

And in the dim candlelight

Within a casket lay so still

That soon would lie beneath the earth up

At the top of the hill

The little boy kept askin in a low and plaintive tone

What's wrong with mommy grandpa

Won't she be comin home

It's awful lonesome grandpa

Since daddy went away

And mommy's all the reason

Why I'm happy every day

Wouldn't she feel better grandpa

If I layed down by her side

The old man turned and faced him

And with these words replied

Mother went a walkin son

Away up in the sky

Along the brook that winds among

The stars up there on high

And down the valley where the sun

Goes home at night to sleep

Mother went a walkin son

She wouldn't want us to weep

The boy didn't seem to understand just

Where his mom had gone

He couldn't realize that now

She wouldn't be comin home

He saw the rain on grandpa's face

He didn't know he cried

And of course he couldn't hear the words

That grandpa said inside

Mother went a walkin son

Up yonder in the sky

And all that we can do down here son

Is bow our heads and cry

She's gone to meet your daddy son

And take him by the hand

Yes mother went a walkin son in

God's great meadowland