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An English Orphan
Two variants of this song appear in the Frank C. Brown Collection.
'An English Orphan.' From Miss Pearl Webb. Pineola, Avery county, without date. Dr. Brown notes: "'My Heart's in the Highlands' and 'Apprentice.' " Dr. White adds : "It does sing to the tune of 'My Heart's in the Highlands.' "
I My home is in England, my home is not here.
Rut why should I murmur when trials appear?
The woman that took me, (iod has taken away ;
She's gone to join the angels and with jesus to stav.
2 They l)r(nij:;in mv in my cliildhood. they never th()Uf,dit that 1 knew ;
But it comes to nie so clearly and 1 know 'lis all just so.
I have no friends, no relations, no one to take ni\- ])art;
lUu if I live a Christian we'll meet to never part.
3 When 1 teel so sad and lonely and ni\- friiMuU thev seem
so few.
I take it all to Jesus: I know he'll hear me throuf^h.
But 'tis sad to he an ori)han. without a mother's care.
But it's sweet to know that Jesus loves his children every-
where.
4 Although I'm poor and homeless, without a friend to love,
1 i,''lory in the one grand hope: There is a home ahove,
Home, home, sweet, sweet home.
Prepare me, dear Savior, for Heaven ahove.
No title. From MS book of Mary Martin Copley. Route 8, Durham;
obtained by Jesse T. Carpenter. R.F.I).. Durliam ; undated. MS incom-
plete. With a few verbal variations, follows A through stanza 3, but of
stanza 4 has only the opening clause, "Although I'm poor and home-
less. . . ."