Call Collect on Christmas

When I was just a boy I started rambling’

I left my mountain home and mother dear

She held me close to her breast

And she made this last request

Call me on the phone just once a year

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Don’t forget to call collect on Christmas

That’s the last words I heard my Mother say

While I’m waiting here alone

I’ll be sitting by the phone

I just want to hear your voice on Christmas day

So every year on Christmas I would call her

I’d tell her I’d be home before too long

But this year when I called

There was no answer there at all

I knew , ??I think?? there must be something wrong

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The ones who found her said she tried to call the doctor

Where she lay she had been reaching for the phone

But in my heart, I knew that she had been reaching out for me

The one who went away and left her all alone

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