OVER THE HILLS OF THE POOR HOUSE


1. Oh how can it be they have driven
   Our father so helpless and old
   Oh God may their crimes be forgiven
   To perish out here in the cold

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    I'm old I'm helpless and feeble
    And the days of my youth have gone by
    And over the hills to the poor house
    I must wander alone that I've died

2. Long years since Mary was taken
   My faithful affectionate wife
   Since then I've been alone and forsaken
   The light has died out of my life

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3. I gave them the house they were born in
   A deed to the farm and more
   I gave them the place that they lived on
   And now I am turned from its door

4. Oh me on the doorstep up yonder
   I've set with my babe's on my knee
   No father so happy or fonder
   Than I of my little ones three

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THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN - Yesterday & Today Volume 2