Once when I was a boy of about nine or ten, I fell in love with the girl who lived next door.
And every day after school I would wait by her fence
And we would play till her parents got home.
And she would sing this song
It still gives me shivers
Mommy doesn't love me and Daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
Mommy doesn't love me and Daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
There used to be this kindly old man
Who'd make us hot cocoa while we sat in his lap
And he'd make her sing the song that she sang
The song that I still sing every day
He used to stroke her face, while she sang this song
Mommy doesn't love me and
Daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
Mommy doesn't love me and
Daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
One autumn day she asked me to wait
She asked me to meet her at the top of the hill
And so I went, hoping to spend
Some time with the girl I loved.
But she never showed.
Oh, she never arrived.
This was the day,
The day that she died
Mommy doesn't love me and
Daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
Mommy doesn't love me and
Daddy doesn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
Every day, for a year that we remained in that house
I would hear her singing in the middle of the night
I know that I should have been very afraid.
But I love the sound of her voice.
And she would sing to me.
And "Now I've been set free.
Here is the song, I sing for you"
Mommy didn't love me and
Daddy didn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
Mommy didn't love me and
Daddy didn't want me.
But I'm a child of God.
Mommy doesn't love me.
Daddy doesn't love me.
Mommy didn't want me.
Daddy didn't want me.
Mommy doesn't love me.
Daddy doesn't love me.