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Submitted by Bill Winfield

THE DRUNKARD'S SON

	G	G7	C
	In an old dusty	attic of a	tenement house

	G	A7	D	D7
I	happend to	wander one	day

	G	G7	C
And	there on the	rafters 'neath	shavings and chips

	G	D7	G
A	drunkard's poor	little boy	lay

	G7	C
Oh	why are lying up	here in the cold

	G7	C	C7
What	makes you lie on this hard	bed?

	F	C	Am
My	father's a drunkard and he	beat me to	day

	F	C
My	darling old G7]mother is	dead

	G	G7	C
I'm	hiding from	father and	please sir, don't tell

	G	A7	D	D7
He	beat me 'cause	I would not	steal

	G	G7	C
He	said he would	kill me the	next I failed

	G	D7	G
And I'm	so a	fraid sir, he	will

	G7	C
I'm	leaving you here, son, I	sadly replied

	G7	C	C7
But	I will be back right a	way

	F	C	Am
But	when I returned to the	attic I	found

	F	G7	C
That	Jesus had	been there that	day

	G	G7	C
The	chips and the	shavings were	there as before

	G	A7	D	D7
And the	little boy	lie on his	bed

	G	G7	C
With	tears on his	cheeks and his	hands at his side

	G	D7	G7
The	poor little	fellow was	dead

	G7	C
A	picture of mother lay	close to his heart

	G7	C	C7
A	faint little note by his	head

	F	C	Am
As I	opened the paper, my	eyes filled with	tears

	F	G7	C
For	these were the	words that I	read

	G	G7	C
I'm	hiding with	Jesus a	cross the divide

	G	A7	D	D7
With dear	mother for	ever I'll	dwell

	G	G7	C
And	thank you dear	mister for your	kindness to me

	G	D7	G
And	now it's al	right if you	tell

(Guess you could say this was a song about child abuse long before child

abuse was ever identified as a social malfunction)Till its chiseled in

stone

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