Hug me closer, mother closer Put your arms around me tight For I’m cold and tired dear mother And I feel so strange tonight 
Something hurts me here dear mother Like a stone upon my breast And I wonder, mother, wonder Why it is I cannot rest 
All the day while you were working As I lay upon my bed I was trying to be patient And to think of what you said 
Just before the lamps were lighted Just before the children came While the room was very quiet I heard someone call my name 
All at once a window opened On a field of lambs and sheep Some were at the brook a-drinking Some were lying fast asleep 
In a moment I was looking On a world so bright and fair Which was filled with little children And they seemed so happy there 
They were singing oh so sweetly Sweetest songs I’ve ever heard They were singing sweeter mother Than our darling little birds 
Come up here, my little Bessie Come up here, and live with me Where little children never suffer Through the long eternity 
In the solemn hour of midnight In the silence long and deep Lying on her mother’s bosom Little Bessie fell asleep 
Now up yonder at the portals That are shining very fair Little Bessie now is tended By her Savior’s loving care 
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