My transcription from a recording found at Spotify:


NOBODY'S CHILD
Words and music by Cy Coben & Mel Foree
As sung by Hank Snow and His Rainbow Ranch Boys on "Country Legends: Hank Snow" (2012); originally released as RCA Victor 21-0143 (78 rpm) and 48-0147 (45 rpm), 1949.

1. I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day,
And stopped there for a moment just to watch the children play.
Alone, a boy was standing, and when I asked him why,
He turned with eyes that could not see and he began to cry:

CHORUS: I'm nobody's child; I'm nobody's child.
I'm like a flower, just growin' wild.
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile,
Nobody wants me; I'm nobody's child.

2. People come for children and take them for their own,
But they all seem to pass me by and I am left alone.
I know they'd like to take me, but when they see I'm blind,
They always take some other child and I am left behind.

3. No mother's arms to hold me or soothe me when I cry,
Sometimes it gets so lonely here, I wish that I could die.
I'd walk the street of heaven where all the blind can see,
And just like all the other kids, there'd be a home for me.

4. SPOKEN: I just can't seem to figure out why the folks all pass me by,
'Cause I know that it's true that God takes little blind children with him in the sky;
And they tell me that I'm oh so pretty, and they seem to like my big curls of gold,
But then they take some other little child and I am left here all alone.

CHORUS