Slipped Away (Ballad of Lauretha Vaird) Lyrics

Good morning son
It's off to school you go
Mom's gone to work you know
Mom when are you coming homeThere's a bank robbery that's going on
Ooh this very morn
Mom's gone to work for sure
Mom when are you coming homeOfficers the bank is being held
By two gunmen that don't mean well
Mom's on the job can't you tell
Mom when are you coming homeMom when are you coming home
To see your son
Daughter don't be a policeman
Please be a school teacher insteadYou're so good with the children
Mom when are you coming home
Teacher please excuse these boys from class
Their mother gone from a gunshot blastAnother cop shot down on patrol
Mom when are you coming home
Mom when are you coming home

To see your sonThe gangsters killed our mother dead
All is lost from our family
They tried to save our mom in vain
She drowned in blood and she was not savedThe bank is open and the robbers jailed
And Mom won't be coming home
The way they run their world so wrong
How can us brothers get alongMom when are you coming home
Songwriters
Dutton, Garrett / Treece, ChuckPublished by
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP