i was slowly passing an orphan s home one day and stopped there for a moment just to watch the children play alone a boy was standing and when i asked him why he turned with eyes that could not see and he began to cry i m nobody s child i m nobody s child i m like a flower just growing wild no mommy s kisses and no daddy s smiles nobody wants me i m nobody s child people come for children and take them for their own but they all seem to pass me by and i am left alone i know they d like to take me but when they see i m blind they always take some other child and i am left behind no mother s arms to hold me or soothe me when i cry sometimes it gets so lonely here i wish that i could die i d walk the streets of heaven where all the blind can see and just like all the other kids there d be a home for me i just can t seem to figure out why the folks all pass me by cause i know that it s true that god takes little blind children with him in the sky and they tell me that i m oh so pretty and they seem to like my big curls of gold but then they take some other little child and i m left here all alone i m nobody s child i m nobody s child i m like a flower just growing wild no mommy s kisses and no daddy s smiles nobody wants me i m nobody s child