Somebody's Mother - Slim Dusty, Shorty Ranger

I’ll sing you a song of a mother

Of an old fashioned woman at home

Who has shed many tears

While waiting for years

For her wanderin' boy to return

She remembers her babe in a cradle

And the future she planend him someday

But the time come to part

And it near broke her heart

When he walked down life’s lonesome highway

Was that somebody you?

Who left a dear mother so true?

Well sit down and write a letter tonight

And her pathway much brighter will glow

She waits all alone by the window

Just a-watchin' the sunset so high

At the close of the day, as the sun sinks away

But the postman brings never a line

Boys, if you fall by the roadside

Along life’s lonely highway

Whatever you’ve done

You’re some mother’s son

And her arms are still waiting today

Was that somebody you?

Who left a dear mother so true?

Well sit down and write a letter tonight

And her pathway much brighter will glow