Текст песни There's a Mother Always Waiting - Johnny Cash

So, you're going to leave the old home, Jim
Today you're going away
You're going to find a better place to dwell

So spoke us sweet young mother
To her boy one summer day
If your mind's made up that way, I wish you well

The old home will be lonesome
We'll miss you when you're gone
The birds won't sing in clouds up in the sky

But if you get in trouble, Jim
Just write and let me know
She spoke these words and then she said goodbye

If sickness overtakes you
Or old companions shake you
As through this world you wander all alone

When friends you haven't any
In your pocket not a penny
There's a mother always awaiting you at home

Ten years later to this village
Came a stranger no one knew
His steps were halt and ragged clothes he wore

The little children laughed at him
As down the lane he trod
But at last he stopped before a cottage door

He gently knocked, no sound he heard
He thought, can she be dead?
But then he heard a voice well known to him

Was his mother's voice, but her hair had silvered
By the touch of time
And she said, thank God, they've sent me home my Jim

If sickness overtakes you
Or old companions shake you
As through this world you wander all alone

When friends you haven't any
In your pocket not a penny
There's a mother always awaiting you at home.