Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Gillian Welch
Canonical path: /gillian-welch/orphan-girl
Related lyric paths: 6
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Orphan Girl
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Orphan Girl
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I am an orphan on God's highway
But I'll share my troubles if you go my way
I have no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl
I have had friendships pure and golden
But the ties of kinship I have not known them
I know no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl
But when He calls me I will be able
To meet my family at God's table
I'll meet my mother my father
My sister my brother
No more an orphan girl
Blessed Savior make me willing
And walk beside me until I'm with them
Be my mother my father
My sister my brother
I am an orphan girl
I am an orphan girl
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Gillian Welch performs "Orphan Girl", and this lyric page sits inside the Gillian Welch catalog on LyroVerse.
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