Please let Mother come Home again.
Composed by F. A. ALEXANDER, arr. TOM MELLOR.
Written by ROBERT DONNELLY
Original Copyright unknown, pre 1900
[Verse 1.]
Daddy, dear daddy, why do you sigh,
Each time you gaze at my mother's frame,
You know she's an angel up in the sky,
How I would love to have her home again;
My teacher at school only told me today,
That God hears a little child's prayer
So out in the playground I went on my knees,
And said as I gazed in the air;
[Chorus]
Please let mother come home again,
We want her, daddy and I.
Please let mother come home again,
Back from your beautiful sky,
She is an angel I know very well,
You will know her for Maggie's her name.
I can see that my Daddy is breaking his heart,
So let mother come home again.
[Verse 2.]
Daddy,I've noticed each time you come home,
Your eyes always wander to dear mother's face.
Was she so good dad? I was so young,
I cannot remember her here in this place.
Let us kneel down dad and I'll say a prayer
A prayer to the one that's above,
To send home again to my daddy and me
The mother we so dearly love.
[Chorus]
3.
The man, brokenhearted, The tears falling fast,
Joined in the most fervent prayer of his life.
"I'd for give all her faults," he tenderly cried,
"Oh! what would I give to see my dear wife!"
he had ne'er told his child his wife ran away
And left him nigh mad with despair;
The door slowly opened, the mother appeared,
As she entered she heard her child's prayer.
[Chorus]