Johnny Cash There`s A Mother Always Waiting At Home Lyrics

There`s A Mother Always Waiting At Home Lyrics

"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



CHORUS:

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"



REPEAT CHORUS