Little Orphan Girl

Source Recording Artist: Doc Watson

Album: Old Time Music at Newport (1963)

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Song Details

Title: Little Orphan Girl

Alternate Titles: The Orphan Girl

Songwriter(s):

Traditional

First Release: Riley Puckett (1925)

Themes: Struggle

Source Recording Details

Band/Artist:

Doc Watson

Key: A

Time Signature: Waltz

Tempo (BPM): 136

Track Length: 3:15

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Guitar:

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Little Orphan Girl

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No home no home said a little girl at the door of a rich man’s home
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She trembling stood on the marble steps and leaned on the polished wall
 

The little girl still trembling stood before that rich man’s door
With a frowning face he scornfully said no room no bread for the poor

Then the rich man went to his table so fine where he and his family were fed
And the orphan stood in the snow so deep as she cried for a piece of bread

That night he slept on his velvet couch and he dreamed of his silver and gold
While the orphan lay in a bed of snow as she murmured so cold so cold

The hours rolled on through the midnight storm rolled on like a funeral bell
The sleet still fell in a blinding sheet and the drifting snow still fell

When morning came the little girl still lay at the rich man’s door
But her soul had fled away to its home where there’s room and there’s bread for the poor

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