NOBODY'S CHILD
(Cy Coben / Mel Foree)


Hank Snow - 1949
Lonnie Donegan - 1956
Tony Sheridan & The Beatles - 1961
Hank Williams Jr. - 1967
Karen Young - 1969
Heather & The Thunderbirds - 1969
Irene Ryder - 1971
Maria Stenz - 1972
Anneke Gr?nloh - 1989
The Traveling Wilburys - 1990

Also recorded by:
The Alexander Bros; Vernon Oxford; Sydney Devine;  
Sheb Wooley; Billy Fury; Agnes Chan; Foster & Allen;
Majda Sepe; Rose Marie; Kitty Kelly; Daniel O'Donnell; 
Bobby Jay; Louise Morrissey; The Soul Stirrers.





I was slowly passing an orphans' home one day
I stopped there for a moment just to watch the children play
Alone a boy was standing, and when I asked him why
He turned with eyes that could not see and he began to cry

I'm nobody's child, I'm nobody's child
I'm like a flower just growing wild
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile
Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child

People come for children and take them for their own
But they all seem to pass me by and I am left alone
I know they'd like to take me, but when they see I'm blind
They always take some other child and I am left behind

No mother's arms to hold me or soothe me when I cry
Sometimes it gets so lonely here, I wish that I could die
I'd walk the streets of Heaven where all the blind can see
And just like all the other kids, there'd be a home for me

SPOKEN:
I just can't seem to figure out why the folks all pass me by
'Cause I know that it's true that God takes little blind children with Him in the sky
And they tell me that I'm oh-so-pretty and they seem to like my big curls of gold
But then they take some other little child and I am left here all alone

I'm nobody's child, I'm nobody's child
I'm like a flower just growing wild
No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile
Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2011)