Walking up This Hill on Decoration Day

Oh lord I'm so lonesome
 My wife went to heaven one year today
 Songbirds sing their sadness
 Walkin up this hill on decoration day
 My children know not the reason
 The fast train took their mother away
 On her grave we'll place new flowers
 Walking up this hill on decoration day
 My babies ask me about her each night when they kneel down to pray
 Oh lord I have no answer climbing up this hill on decoration day
 Later that night dad took his own
 life worried and sick since mom went away
 Left eight little children to face life
 together and walk up this hill next decoration day
 Early in springtime when flowers were bloomin they'd pick roses for
 their loved ones on their way but this year there's a new grave stone
 Standin on this hill on decoration day .
 Twenty years later the family came to see us,
 with roses in their hands you could almost hear them say
 It's so sad to place new flowers up on this hill on decoration day.