Oh dear I'm so tired and so lonesome
I wonder why mommy don't come
She told me to close my pretty blue eyes
And when I awoke she'd be home
She said she was going to see Grandma
Who lives by the river so wide
And I guess my mommy fell in there
And probably she won't be home tonight
I guess I'll go out and find papa
I expect he has stopped in at the store
It's a big pretty store filled with bottles
And I wish he wouldn't go there anymore
For he is so sick when he comes home,
He stumbles and falls on the stairs.
And once as he went in the palor,
he kicked at my poor little chair.
But I love him, I guess i'll find him,
And i know he will gladly come home.
Then it won't be so dark or so lonely,
while waiting for mama to come.
So out in the night went the baby
the sweet little blossom so fair
With eyes as bright as the mornning
and a head full of yella-golden hair
She pushed the heavy bar room door open,
and her papa in the corner she spied.
Down the hall her little feat pattered,
and soon she was close by his side.
Oh papa she cried as she reached him
I know that the music is sweet
But it's suppertime now, oh papa
Little blossom wants something to eat
A moment the red eyes gazed wildly
Down into her face sweet and fair
And just as a demon possessed him
He kicked off the back of a chair
A moment a second was over
The work of a fein was complete
the poor little innocent blossom,
lay crumbled and crushed at his feet
then in swept the lay so majestic,
and said with your life you must pay.
For only a fein or a mad man,
could murder a child in that way.
A moment the baby's life trembled
Then poor little blossom was dead