| Show IllS HIS HERITAGE My son you'll youl soon be leaving As youngsters often do Your mother will be grieving You dad will wW miss you too You'll never find a fonder Or better home than here But youngsters like to to wander The springtime of the tho year Temptation will surround you To lead you Into wrong But from the way Ive I've found you I know you'll get along I know somehow or other Because you always had hadA A whole lot of your mother And a little of your dad A queer old world awaits you Out there beyond the hill A world that loves you hates yau That gives you good and ill Be De humble In your riches Be De glad without a cent T The e roses rases In the ditches Bloom on on and are content Though other men have money And money helps a lot Youve You've got a fortune Sonny Bonny Some others haven't got Youve You've got a wealth another That ought to make you lOU glad gladA glad glad- A whole lot of your mother tea little of your dad Theres There's lots of mother in you you you- Ive I've seen it day by day Temptation will not win you OU Nor lead you far astray In evry tangled byway The mother will arise And help you find rind the highway highway- I see it in your eyes And so Ill I'll never worry Wherever you rou may go However you may hurry Whatever you may know A boy somehow or other Wont Won't turn out very bad With a whole lot of his mother mother- And a little of your dad Douglas Malloch |
