Come All You Tenderhearted - The Stanley Brothers

Come all you tenderhearted

Your attention I will call

I’ll tell you how it started

Come listen one and all

Last Wednesday, there was a light

Seen shining on the hills

A mother and her daughter might

While everything was still

She went into a neighbor’s

Some hundred yards away

She sat down and talked with them

But she did not mean to see

Don’t stay to long dear mother there

For we’ll be lonesome here

I’ll give some … she said

Then I’ll return again

But when she started home again

Her house was in flames

She cried «Oh Lord, my babies are gone

And I’m the one to blame»

She cried «Alas, how sad they sleep

Wrapped up in the red hot flame»

She bursted all asunder then

And the flames rolled over her head

Their little bones lay on the ground

They both lay face to face

Each other did entwine

Each other did embrace