文本歌词

Little Tom - Ferlin Husky
Written by：C. Wilson
Little Tom what will be your fate
Little Tom will you be someone great
Do you know right from wrong
Are they teaching you at home
Or have they turn you loose to roam little Tom
I walked into a cafe and
Ordered myself something to eat
When a little boy walked in
With his shoes half off his feet
He said buy a paper mister
I said how old are you son
Seven sir when my papers are sold
I'll be on my way home
What your name
Thomas but everybody calls me little Tom
They named me after my daddy
But they say I look like my mama
Why it's almost midnight
You should be home asleep
I know it but I wanna get me a bicycle
And I gotta help mama buy
Somethin' to eat my daddy's pretty mean to us
And he spends most of his
Money for wine he don't hold a job like other men
Cause will he gets fired all time
I said have somethin' to eat
Aren't you hungry
I guess a little bit
I believe I'll have a hamburger and a glass
Of milk to go with it
I said is there enough he said make it two
Cause I ain't eat since noon
I said where you live son on main street sir
There's six of us livin' in one room
There's me and my three brothers
And my ma and my dad
But someday I'm gonna buy me a big house
If I don't turn out bad
My appetite left me as
I sat there watching him
And I thought he's just one of thousands
That's brought up in a home of sin
When the parents neglect the children
And forget to make the all menkind
And then wondered why there's jun for all the little thing
When there though most of the time
I bit my lip and fought back tears
As I watched the little guy leave the cafe
And I wondered how many more children
Would be brought up that way
Little Tom what will be your fate