Little Tom, will be your fate? Little Tom, will you be someone Do you know right from wrong, are they teaching you at Or they turned you loose to roam Little Tom?
I walked a cafe and ordered myself something to eat When a boy walked in with his shoes half off his feet He said, Buy a paper, Mister, I said, How are you son? Seven, sir and when my are sold, I'll be on my way home
your name? Thomas but calls me Little Tom They named me after my but they say, I look like my mom Why it's almost midnight son, you should be asleep
I know it but I wanted to get me a And I gotta help mommy buy to eat My daddy's pretty to us
And he spends of his money for wine And he don't hold a job like other men 'Cause well, he fired all the time
I said, Have to eat Aren't you He said, I guess a bit
I believe I have a and a glass of milk to go with it I said, Is that He said, Make it two I ain't eat since noon
do you live son? On Street sir There's six of us livin' in one
There's me and my three and my mommy and my dad But someday, I'm buy mommy a big house If I have to out bad
My left me As I sat there him And I thought, he's just one of That's brought up in a of sin
Where their parents abused children And to maker the all mankind And then why there's juvenile delinquency When are at fault most of the time
I bit my lip and back tears As I the little guy leave the cafe And I wondered, how more children be brought up that way
Little Tom, will be your fate? Tom, will you be someone great?