#23 - Where is My Boy To-night

Composer:
- Robert S. Lowry
  (1826-1899), 1877
Also known as:
- Where is My Boy Tonight?
- Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
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Lyrics:
Where is my wandering boy tonight,
The boy of my tenderest care,
The boy that was once my joy and light,
The child of my love and prayer?

chorus:
O where is my boy tonight?
O where is my boy tonight?
My heart o'erflows, for I love him, he knows;
O where is my boy tonight?

Once he was pure as morning dew,
As he knelt at his mother's knee;
No face was as bright, no heart more true,
And none was so sweet as he.

O could I see you now, my boy,
As fair as in olden time,
When prattle and smile made home a joy,
And life was a merry chime!

Go for my wandering boy tonight;
Go search for him where you will;
But bring him to me with all his blight,
And tell him I love him still.
- Robert S. Lowry
  (1826-1899), 1877