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I’m Nobody’s Child
recorded by Hank Snow
written by Mel Foree and Cy Coben
 
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I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day
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And stopped there for a moment just to watch the children play
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A lonely boy was standing and when I asked him why
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He turned with eyes that could not see and he began to cry
 
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I'm nobody's child I’m nobody's child
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I’m like a flower just growing wild
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No mommy’s kisses no daddy's smile
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Nobody wants me I'm nobody's child
 
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People come for children and take them for their own
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But they all seem to pass me by and leave me all alone
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I know they'd like to take me but when they see I'm blind
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They always take some other child and I am left behind
 
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No mommy’s arms to hold me or sooth me when I cry
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Sometimes it gets so lonely here I wish that I could die
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I’d walk the streets of heaven where all the blind can see
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And just like all the other kids there’d be a home for me
 
 
Next two verses are spoken:
 
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I just can’t seem to figure out 
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Why the folks all pass me by
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Cause I know that it’s true that God takes 
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Little blind children with Him in the sky
 
    C
And they tell me I’m so pretty
    F
And they seem to like my big curls of gold
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But then they take some other little child
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And I’m left here all alone
 
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