Oh dear I'm so tired and so lonesome
  I wonder why mommy don't come
  She told me to shut up my blue eyes
  And before I woke up she'd be home
  
  She said she was going to see Grandma
  Who lives by the river so wide
  And I guess my mommy's feeling bad
  And perhaps she won't be home tonight
  
  So I guess I'll go down and meet daddy
  Perhaps he has stopped at the store
  It's a great big store full of bottles
  And I wish he wouldn't go there anymore
  
  So out in the night with the baby
  Her little heart beating with pride
  'Til her tired feet entered the gin palace
  With music all radiant with light
  
  Oh daddy she cried as she reached him
  I think that the music's so sweet
  But it's almost suppertime daddy
  Little blossom wants something to eat
  
  A moment his blurred eyes gazed wildly
  Down into her face sweet and fair
  And as the demon possessed him
  He grasped at the back of a chair
  
  A moment a second was over
  He lifted her fair golden head
  A moment the baby's left trembled
  Then poor little blossom was dead