A full program could be devoted to these songs about the Drunkard's Child- the tears would cause flooding in the streets.
(Ch. W. Harris, NY, was the publisher for the Parkhurst song)

Will S. Hays, 1874, Out in the Snow; or, The Drunkard's Child
(Father, please, don't drive me out in the street, There among strangers no pity to meet;...)

C. A. White and Geo. Lowell Austin, 1871, The Poor Drunkard's Child
(One year tonight my poor mother died, While father lay drunk on the floor, ...)

J. L. Feeney, Mary A. Kronsbein, 1882, The Drunkard's Child
(I wish my father'd come, mother, I do not fear him now; ...)

and- The Drunkard's Lone Child, The Drunkard's Outcast Child (1876), Poor Child of the Drunkard (1871), etc. etc.