Cat. #0855 (MFH #45) - As sung by Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas on August 27, 1969
VERSE 1
They tell me Papa, this tonight
You wed another bride
This to clasp 'er in your arms
Where my dear Mother died
VERSE 2
O Father do not bid me come
To meet your lov'in bride
How can I meet 'er in th room
Where my dear Mother died
VERSE 3
Her pictures hanging on th wall
Her books are lying there
An' here's th harp her fingers touched
There sits her vacant chair
VERSE 4
They say, she'll lean her gracefull head
Upon your manly breast
Like she who still lies cold in death
In life's last hours did rest
VERSE 5
They say, her name is Mary, too
Th name my Mother's wore
An' Father is she kind and true
Like th one you loved before
VERSE 6
Is 'er step so soft an' low
Her voice so sweet an' mild
An' Father, do you think she'll love
VERSE 7
Let me kneel down by your side
To say my even'in prayer
That god's right hand will guide you on
To th long an' lonesome air
VERSE 8
Her prayer was sweet, soft an' low
I'm wearyed now, she said,
Dear Papa, take me in your arms
An' lay me on th bed
VERSE 9
As I went to leave th room
One joyful cry was given
I turned an' caught th last sweet smile
My blind child was in Heaven
VERSE 10
We buried her by her Mother's side
An' raised a marble there
An' on it wrote, th last sweet smile
There be no blind one there