There’s A Mother (Always Waiting For You At Home)
Johnny Cash (“Personal File” album)
So you’re going to leave the old home Jim
Today you’re going away
So you’re going among the city folks to dwell
So spoke a kind old mother to her boy one summer day
If you’re mind’s made up that way I wish you well
The old home will be lonesome
We’ll miss you when you go
The birds wont sing so sweet when you’re not nigh
But if you get in trouble Jim just write and let us know
She spoke these words and then she said goodbye
(CHORUS)
If sickness overtakes you or old companions shake you
As through this world you wander all alone
When friends you haven’t any
In your pocket not a penny
There’s a mother always waiting you at home
Ten years later to this village came a stranger no one knew
His steps were halt and ragged clothes he wore
The little children laughed at him as down the lane he trod
at last he stopped before a cottage door
He gently knocked no sound he heard
He thought can she be dead?
But then he heard a voice well known to him
Was his mother’s voice but her hair had silvered by the touch of time
And she said thank God they’ve sent me home my Jim
(Chorus)
ADKF 