Slipped Away (Ballad of Lauretha Vaird)

Good morning son
 It's off to school you go
 Mom's gone to work you know
 Mom when are you coming home
 There's a bank robbery that's going on
 Ooh this very morn
 Mom's gone to wrok for sure
 Mom when are you coming home
 Officers the bank is being held
 By two gunmen that don't mean well
 Mom's on the job can't you tell
 Mom when are you coming home
 Mom when are you coming home
 To see your son
 Daughter don't be a policeman
 Please be a school teacher instead
 You're so good with the children
 Mom when are you coming home
 Teacher please excuse these boys from class
 Their mother gone from a gunshot blast
 Another cop shot down on patrol
 Mom when are you coming home
 Mom when are you coming home
 To see your son
 The gangsters killed our mother dead
 All is lost from our family
 They tried to save our mom in vain
 She drowned in blood and she was not saved
 The bank is open and the robbers jailed
 And Mom won't be coming home
 The way they run their world so wrong
 How can us brothers get along
 Mom when are you coming home