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