| Don’t the world seem lonesome, battlin' by yourself
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| Don’t the world seem lonesome, battlin' by yourself
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| Yes, to think someone you love, has turned her back for someone else
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| When my mother and dad left me, I was too small to help myself
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| When my mother an' dad left me, I was too small to help myself
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| And my sisters and brothers, they drove me away to somebody else
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| So many nights and days, I tramped through the rain and snow
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| So many nights and days, I tramped through the rain and snow
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| I wanted to go back home, but I know I’m not wanted there no more
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| It, what a lonesome life, when everything go wrong
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| What a lonesome life, when you tryin' to carry on
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| When you motherless and fatherless, and every friend you had begin to treat you
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| wrong
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| Rocks was my pillow, and the cold ground was by bed
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| Rocks was my pillow, and the cold ground was by bed
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| And the blue skies was my blanket, and the moonlight was my spread |