Carter Family Song Lyrics

Bring back my wandering boy

Out in the cold world and far away home

Some mother's boy is wandering all alone

With no one to guide him or keep his footsteps right

Some mother's boy is homeless tonight

 

    Bring back to me my wandering boy

    For there is no other who's so apt give me joy

    Tell him that his mother with faded cheeks and hair

    Is at the old home place awaiting him there

 

Out in the hallway, there stand a vacant chair

And an old pair of shoes he used to wear

Empty is the cardle he used to love so well

Oh, how I miss him no tongue can tell

 

* Refrain

 

Well I remember those parting words he said

We'll meet up yonder where tears are never shed

In that land of sunshine away from toil and care

When life is over, I'll meet you up there

 

* Refrain