Wandering Boy

Roscoe Holcomb * Track #3 On The High Lonesome Sound (LP Edition)

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Album The High Lonesome Sound (LP Edition)

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Roscoe Holcomb

1965

Wandering Boy by Roscoe Holcomb

Performed by

Roscoe Holcomb

Produced by

John Cohen

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Unaccompanied voice. This song can be found in the Old Baptist Songbook published by Foster Ratcliff, Lookout, Kentucky. It is the type of song which is sung at the Old Regular Baptist services – often it is “lined out” (see Amazing Grace – FA 2317). In the film, “The High Lonesome Sound” Roscoe sin...

Wandering Boy Lyrics

As I travel this wide world over
Friends I find wherever I roam
But to me there's none like Mother
None like Mother dear at home

They may treat me very kindly
Bid me welcome everywhere
But it just only reminds me
Of a loving mother's care

I remembered well how Mother
Used to slew the slightest pain
With her tender words and kisses
She'd soon make me well again

Oh God wilt thou have mercy
On my darling precious boy
Save, protect him Lord I pray thee
Let not sin his soul destroy