Why Did They Dig Ma’s Grave So Deep?

Why Did They Dig Ma’s Grave So Deep?
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Poor little Nelile is weeping tonight,
Thinking of days that were full of delight;
Lonely she sits by the old kitchen grate,
Sighing for mother, but now ’tis too late
Under the daisies, now covered with snow,
Rests the fond mother, away from life’s woe
Nellie is left now to murmur and weep- Why did they dig ma’s grave so deep?

Chorus-
Why did they did ma’s grave so deep?
Down in the ground so deep!
Why did they leave me here to weep?
Why did they dig ma’s grave so deep?

Only sweet memories of gladness and love
Come to the child of the dear one above
Shadows are creeping around the lone room:
Early and late late there’s a feeling of gloom
Out in the churchyard the wild breezes blow
Seeming to echo her heart’s grief and woe
Softly she murmurs, while chills o’er her creep,
“Why did they dig ma’s grave so deep?”

Poor little Nellie in slumber sweet rest
Dreams all the night of her mother so blest:
Sees her again in a vision of light
Praying “God bless little Neille tonight”;
Smiling ng upon her with glorified face
Calling her home to that hat bright resting place
Poor little Nellie oft sighs in her sleep- Why did they dig ma’s grave so deep?