Can a Boy Forget His Mother?

Composer: Joseph Weber, 1889

Can a boy for­get his mo­ther’s pray­er

When he has wan­dered

God knows where?

It’s down the path of death and shame

But mo­ther’s pray­ers are heard the same!

Come back

my boy

come back

I say

And walk now in thy mo­ther’s way;

Come back

my boy

come back

I say

And walk now in thy mo­ther’s way.

Can a boy for­get his mo­ther’s face

Whose heart was kind and filled with grace?

Her lov­ing voice it ech­oes sweet:

She waits

she longs

her boy to meet!

Can a boy for­get his mo­ther’s door

From which he wan­dered years be­fore?

With tears and sighs she said

Good­bye!

Meet me

my boy

be­yond the sky!

Can a boy for­get that she is dead

Though ma­ny years have passed and fled?

Those tears

that pray­er

that sweet Good­bye;

She waits to wel­come thee on high!

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