Call Collect on Christmas
When I was just a boy I started rambling'
I left my mountain home and mother dear
She held me close to her breast
And she made this last request
Call me on the phone just once a year
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Don't forget to call collect on Christmas
That's the last words I heard my Mother say
While I'm waiting here alone
I'll be sitting by the phone
I just want to hear your voice on Christmas day
So every year on Christmas I would call her
I'd tell her I'd be home before too long
But this year when I called
There was no answer there at all
I knew , ??I think?? there must be something wrong
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The ones who found her said she tried to call the doctor
Where she lay she had been reaching for the phone
But in my heart, I knew that she had been reaching out for me
The one who went away and left her all alone
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