C
F
Oh dear I’m so tired and so lonesome
G7
C
I wonder why mommy don’t come
F
She told me to close my blue eyes
G7
C
And before I woke up she’d be home
F
She said she was going to see grandma
G7
C
Who lives by the river so wide
F
And I guess my mommy’s fell in there
G7
C
And perhaps she won’t be home tonight
F
So I guess I’ll go down and meet daddy
G7
C
Perhaps he has stopped at the store
F
It’s a great big store full of bottles
G7
C
And I wish he wouldn’t go there anymore
F
So out in the night with the baby
G7
C
Her little heart beating with pride
F
Till her tired feet entered the gin palace
G7
C
With music all radiant with light
F
Oh daddy she cried as she reached him
G7
C
I think that the music’s so sweet
F
But it’s almost supper time daddy
G7
C
Little blossom wants something to eat
F
A moment his blurred eyes gazed wildly
G7
C
Down into her face sweet and fair
F
And as the demon possessed him
G7
C
He grasped at the back of a chair
F
A moment a second was over
G7
C
He lifted her fair golden head
F
A moment the baby’s lips trembled
G7
C
Then poor little blossom was dead
F
G7
C
