C
So you're going to leave the old home Jim

             F      C
Today you're going away

          G7                           C
So you're going among the city folk to dwell

                                      F            C
So spoke a kind old mother to her boy one summer's day

          G7                                 C
If you're mind's made up that way I wish you well


    F                C
The old home will be lonesome

            
We'll miss you when you go

                                              G7
The birds won't sing so sweet when you're not nigh

    C                                        F      C
But if you get in trouble Jim just write and let us know

                G7                          C
She spoke these words and then she said goodbye


   F             C
If sickness over takes you

               
And old companions shake you

                                      G7
As through this world you wander all alone

     C
When friends you haven't any

        F
In your pocket not a penny

          C             G7             C
There's a mother always waiting you at home

     
                                                F      C
Ten years later to this village came a stranger no one knew

               G7                          C
His steps were haunt and ragged clothes he wore


The little children laughed at him

            F       C
As down the lane he trod

        G7                          C
At last he stopped before a cottage door


   F                 C
He gently knocked no sound he heard

                          
He thought can she be dead

                                        G7
But then he heard a voice well known to him

     C
Twas his mother's voice but her hair had silvered

       F        C
By the touch of time

        G7                                     C
And she said thank God they've sent me home my Jim


   F             C
If sickness over takes you

               
And old companions shake you

                                      G7
As through this world you wander all alone

     C
When friends you haven't any

        F
In your pocket not a penny

          C             G7             C
There's a mother always waiting you at home