Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry on "The Drunkard's Child" - seems to me that the song Chico posted is the one they're referring to:

Drunkard's Child (I), The

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, father, do not ask me why the tears roll down my cheek... It breaks my heart to think that I must be a drunkard's child." The child recalls how much better things were when mother was alive and father was sober. (S)he asks father to turn to God

AUTHOR: unknown

EARLIEST DATE: 1924 (recording, Henry Whitter)

KEYWORDS: drink orphan

FOUND IN: US(So)

REFERENCES (1 citation):

Randolph 331, "The Drunkard's Child" (1 text)

Roud #7803

RECORDINGS:

Smith's Sacred Singers, "The Drunkard's Child" (Columbia 15137-D, 1927)

Henry Whitter, "The Drunkard's Child" (OKeh 40169, 1924)

CROSS-REFERENCES:

cf. "Drunkard's Lone Child" (plot)

File: R331

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