They're All Going Home but One

Artist:The Blue Sky Boys
Album:1939-1949 Radio Broadcasts
Key:C
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0PxzDk_Ecw


There were five of us boys in the family, we told our dear mother goodbye
We left our dear home down in Georgia, our luck in the city to try
We agreed to go back there and see her, when two years had passed away
She told us that she would be waiting, and two years are over today

They're all going home to Mother tonight, they're all going back but one
And Mother will be so happy tonight, and proud of each fortunate son
But one of her boys will be missing, there's one she will fail to see
They'll all be there with Mother tonight, they're all going home but me

Tonight when it's dark in the prison, I'll stand looking out through the bars
I'll think of my mother in Georgia, I can still see her eyes in the stars
The others were steadfast and loyal, no tears will they cause her to shed
But I was the one that disgraced her, a criminal better off dead

They're all going home to Mother tonight, they're all going back but one
And Mother will be so happy tonight, and proud of each fortunate son
But one of her boys will be missing, there's one she will fail to see
They'll all be there with Mother tonight, they're all going home but me


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