Come all you tender hearted
Traditional Come all you tender hearted Your attention I will call I'll tell you how it started Come listen one and all Last Wednesday night, there was a light Seen shining on a hill A mother and with all her might While every thing was still She went into a neighbors house Some hundred yards away She set down to tolk to them But she did not mean to stay Don't stay too long dear mother there For we'll be lonesome here I'll get some liniment she said Then I'll return again But when she started home again Her house was in a flames She cried Oh Lord my babies are gone And I'm the one to blame She cried alas how sad they sleep Wrapped up in a red hot flame She bursted all asunder then And the flames rolled over her head Her little ones lay on the ground They both lay face to face Each other did entwine Each other did enbrace