"There's A Mother Always Waiting At Home" lyrics - JOHNNY CASH
"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 your 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 won't 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
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 awaiting 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"
If sickness overtakes you
Or old companions shake you
As through this world you wander all alone
When friends you haven't any
Personal File (2006)
- The Letter Edged In Black
- There's A Mother Always Waiting At Home
- The Engineer's Dying Child
- My Mother Was A Lady
- The Winding Stream
- Far Away Places
- Galway Bay
- When I Stop Dreaming
- Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
- I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen
- Missouri Waltz
- Louisiana Man
- Paradise
- I Don't Believe You Wanted To Leave
- Jim, I Wore A Tie Today
- Saginaw, Michigan
- When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
- Girl In Saskatoon
- The Cremation Of Sam McGee
- Tiger Whitehead
- It's All Over
- A Fast Song
- Virgie
- I Wanted So
- It Takes One To Know Me
- Seal It In My Heart And Mind
- Wildwood In The Pines
- Who At My Door Is Standing
- Have Thine Own Way, Lord
- Lights Of Magdala
- If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman
- The Lily Of The Valley
- Have A Drink Of Water
- Way Worn Traveler
- Look Unto The East
- Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At The Door)
- The House Is Falling Down
- One Of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul
- What On Earth Will You Do (For Heaven's Sake)
- My Children Walk In Truth
- No Earthly Good
- Sanctified
- Lord, Lord, Lord
- What Is Man
- Over The Next Hill
- Half A Mile A Day
- Farther Along
- Life's Railway To Heaven
- In The Sweet By And By