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Songs:Two Little Children (123675)
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Curt Bouterse - Two Little Children. (Homer Franklin Morris) This is one of the songs my sister and I grew up singing with my mother. My parents used to sing it together as did my father's parents, who had a gospel program on a radio station in Orlando all through the 1930s. It's clearly in the family of sentimental dying-orphan songs so popular in the late Nineteenth, early Twentieth Century. Only after looking it up on the Web did I realize it had been written by a music publisher from Georgia and recorded by Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band in 1927. Interestingly, though there are two children in the song, we always sang, "row me over the tide."
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The little girls shoes were as bright as the tears
That fell upon the dress that she wore
The little boy's coat was all ragged and torn
And tears shone in his blue eyes
Why don't you go home to your mother I said
and this was the maidens reply
Mammas in heaven they took her away
Away to that home far and bright
She said that she'd call on her darlings some day
And perhaps she will call them tonight
Daddy got lost on the sea long ago
We waited all night on the shore
For he was a life saving captain you know
And never came back anymore
We can't earn our bread,we're to little she said
Jim's five and I'm only seven
Yes Daddy got lost on the sea long ago
And momma's up in heaven
The sextant came early to ring the church bell
He found them beneath the snow white
The angels made place for two orphans to dwell
In heaven with momma that night
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