Save My Mother's Picture from the Sale

歌詞

I've been thinking of the day, which has long since passed away When my mother thorough sickness, drooped and died In the quiet and silent room, when they laid her in the tomb I remember then how bitterly I cried I was a boy, then, my age was scarcely ten Through sorrow I had grown thin and pale When the home had to be sold, I cried with grief untold Oh, save my mother's picture from the sale The table where I played, the cot on which I laid All passed away like chaff before the wind But when the end came near, I cried with piteous tear Oh, save my mother's picture from the sale My mother's face, her dear old face Whose loss I ever shall bewail Don't break an orphan's heart, with this don't make me part Oh, save my mother's picture from the sale The picture round was passed and questions they were asked A price for it was bid, just here and there The tears streamed down my face, I could scarcely keep my place When I saw the picture pass without a care But an angel of a girl, with a mass of golden curls Who was struck to see my face so sad and pale Out bid them all your see, and presented it to me And saved my mother's picture from the sale