“I Saw the Pale Moon Shining on Mother's White Tombstone”

Description

"I am a little orphan, My mother she is dead, My father is a drunkard and won't give me no bread." "I saw the pale moon shining on mother's white tombstone, The roses round it twining it's just like me." The child, with "no mother now," tells of her grief

Cross references

• cf. "Row Us Over the Tide" (subject)
• cf. "Orphan's Lament (Two Little Children, Left Jim and I Alone)" (subject)

Recordings

• Betty Garland, "I Saw the Pale Moon Shining on Mother's White Tombstone" (on BGarland01)