[00:00.00]I Have An Aged Mother - The Carter Family
[00:18.23]Last night while I lay sleeping
[00:22.43]Last night while in a dream
[00:26.68]I saw my dear old mother
[00:31.15]Down by a rippling stream
[00:35.49]Don't ask me why I'm weeping
[00:39.73]Don't ask me why I pray
[00:43.99]For I've an aged mother
[00:48.44]Ten thousand miles away
[01:01.34]A letter here from sister dear
[01:05.53]Come home we're all alone
[01:09.73]Dear mother's slowly fading
[01:14.10]She can't be with us long
[01:18.49]Don't ask me why I'm weeping
[01:22.66]Don't ask me why I pray
[01:26.88]I've a dear old mother dying
[01:31.13]Ten thousand miles away
[01:36.11]Well ah-le-ho le-ho-lay
[01:42.43]Well ah-le-ho le-ho-lay
[01:49.15]Out in the cold world
[01:53.31]Long ways from home
[01:59.24]I'm drawing near the old home
[02:03.24]Dear sister's at the gate
[02:07.56]She's leading me through the doorway
[02:11.67]Oh brother you've come too late
[02:15.87]Oh lead me to the casket
[02:20.08]Throw back the linen so fine
[02:24.24]That I may kiss her pale white lips
[02:28.52]For I know they'll never kiss mine
[02:40.96]I see the pale moon shining
[02:45.09]On mother's white tombstone
[02:49.10]The rosebuds 'round them twining
[02:53.28]Are just like me alone
[02:57.31]Well ah-le-ho le-ho-lay
[03:03.62]Well ah-le-ho le-ho-lay
[03:10.09]Out in the cold world
[03:14.25]Left all alone