When It's Lamplighting Time In The Valley

* Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien

- Roger Wagner 
There's a lamp shining bright in a cabin
In a window it's shining for me
And I know that my mother is praying
For her boy she is longing to see
When it's lamplighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home
I can see that old lamp in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam
In the lamplight each night I can see her
As she rocks in her chair to and fro
Though she prays that I'll come back to see her
Still I know that I never can go
When it's lamplighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home
But I've sinned against my home and my loved ones
And now I must evermore roam
So she lights up the lamp and keeps waiting
For she knows not the crime I have done
So I'll change all my ways and I'll meet her
Up in Heaven when life's race is run
When it's lamplighting time in the valley
Then in dreams I go back to my home
I can see that old lamp in the window
It will guide me wherever I roam