Little Blossom

Oh dear, I'm so tired and so lonesome
 I wonder why mommy don't come
 She told me to shut up, my blue eyes
 And before I woke up, she'd be home
 She said, "She was going to see Grandma"
 Who lives by the river so wide
 And I guess my mommy's fell in there
 And perhaps she won't be home tonight
 So I guess I'll go down and meet daddy
 Perhaps he has stopped at the store
 It's a great big store full of bottles
 And I wish he wouldn't go there anymore
 So out in the night with the baby
 Her little heart beating with pride
 'Til her tired feet entered the Gin Palace
 With music all radiant with light
 Oh daddy, she cried as she reached him
 I think that the music's so sweet
 But it's almost suppertime, daddy
 Little blossom wants something to eat
 A moment his blurred eyes gazed wildly
 Down into her face sweet and fair
 And as the demon possessed him
 He grasped at the back of a chair
 A moment a second was over
 He lifted her fair golden head
 A moment the baby's life trembled
 Then poor little blossom was dead