always a mother waiting   Don Williams

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Date: 3/15/03; 4:44:11 PM



       THERE'S ALWAYS A MOTHER WAITING
                         --Doc Williams--
(C) So you're going to leave the old home Jim.
      To-day you're (F) going a-(C)-way;
      You're going among the (G7) city folk to (C) dwell;
      Thus spoke a fond old mother to her boy one (F) summer's (C) day,
      If you've made up your (G7) mind I wish you (C) well.
      The (F) old home will be (C) lonely,
      We'll (F) miss you when you're (C) gone,
      The (F) birds won't sing so (C) sweet when you're not (G7) nigh;
      But (C) if you get in trouble Jim just write and (F)let me(C) know,
      She spoke these (G7) words and then she said good-(C)-bye.

     If (F) sickness over-(C)-takes you,
     And (F) old companions (C) shake you,
    As through this world you wander all a-(G7)-lone;
    When (C) friends you haven't any,
     In your (F) pocket not a penny,
    There's a (C) mother always waiting for you,
     At home, (G7) sweet (C) home.

    Ten years later to the village came a stranger (F) no one (C) knew,
    His step was (G7) slow and ragged clothes he (C) wore;
    The little children laughed at him,
    As down the (F) street he (C) walked,
    At last he (G7) stopped before a cottage (C) door.
    He (F) gently knocked, no (C) sound he heard,
    At first he thought (G7) her (C) dead;
    And (F) then he heard a sound (C) well known to (G7) him,
    "Twas (C) mother's voice, her hair was silvered,
    By the (F) of (C) time,
    She said, "Thank (G7) God, they sent me home my (C) Jim",
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