Little Bessie

Little Bessie (key of B)
 Hug me closer, mother closer
 Put your arms around me tight
 For I am cold and tired, dear mother
 And I feel so strange tonight
 Something hurts me here, dear mother
 Like a stone upon my breast
 And I wonder, mother wonder
 Why it is I cannot rest
 All the day while you were working
 And I lay upon my bed
 I was trying to be patient
 And to think of what you said
 Just before the lamps were lighted
 Just before the children came
 While the room was very quiet
 I heard someone call my name
 Come up here, my little Bessie
 Come up here and live with me
 Where little children never suffer
 Through the long eternity
 In the silent hour of midnight
 In the silence calling me
 Laying on her mother's bosom
 Little Bessie fell asleep
 Now up yonder at the portals
 That are shining very fair
 Little Bessie now is tended
 By her savior's loving care