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Thread #19632   Message #200829
Posted By: Dulci46
24-Mar-00 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Poor Orphan Child/Weeping Willow
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Poor Orphan Child/Weeping Willow
This is the missing part straight from a Carter Family Album of Smokey Mountain Ballads #3 I hear a low faint voice that says, papa and mama's dead,
It's coming from the orphan child that must be clothed and fed,
It's coming from the orphan child that must be clothed and fed,
it's coming from the orphan child that must be clothed and fed.

Chorus: Saviour lead them by the hand,
Saviour lead them by the hand,
Savior lead them by the hand,
till they reach that glittering strand

Oh now we see those wandering curls hang careless round their brow,
They say to us my papa's dead and I've no mother now
They say to us my papa's dead and I've no mother now,
They say to us my pap's dead and I've no mother now. Chorus

Think of the many children now, poor little boys and girls
Who once had mother's loving hands to smooth their golden curls,
Who once had mothers loving hands to smooth their golden curls,
Who once had mothers loving hands to smooth their golden curls. Chorus

O Saviour, every orphan bless where ever they may roam
Bless every hand that lends them aid and bless the orphan home,
Bless every hand that lends them aid and bless the orphan home
Bless every hand that lends them aid and bless the orphan home. Chorus