Jimmie Rodgers – A Drunkards Child (Guitar)

| D7 | G7 | G7 | C  |
(yodel)

                                          G7
My father is a drunkard, my mother she is dead

                                           G      C
And I am just an orphan child, no place to lay my head

                                 C7                       F
All through this world I wander, they drive me from their door

                    C           G7              C
Someday I'll find a welcome, on heaven's golden shore

                                              G7
Now if to me you'll listen, I'll tell a story sad

                                                            C
How drinking rum and the gambling hell, have stoled away my dad

                                  C7                 F
My mother she is in heaven, where God and the angels smile

                     C             G7     G      C
And now I know she's watching, her lonely orphan child

| C  | C  |
(yodel)

                                      G7
We were once so happy and had a happy home

                                                        C
'Till daddy he went to drinking rum and then he gambled some

                               C7               F
He left my darling mother, she died of a broken heart

                 C        G7                 C
And as I tell my story, I see your teardrops start

                                                    G7
Don't weep for me and mother, although I know it is sad

                                    G                   C
But try to get someone to cheer and save my poor lonely dad

                               C7                  F
I'm awful cold and hungry, she closed her eyes and sighed

                         C               G7     G         C
Then those who heard her story, knew the orphan child had died

| C  | C  |
(yodel)