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!

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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!

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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!

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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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