Hold Fast To The Right!

Come and sit by the side of your mother my boy,
You have only a moment, I know.
But please wait til' I give you this parting advice,
It is all that I have to bestow.

Hold fast to the right, hold fast to the right!
Where ever your footsteps may roam,
Oh forsake not the way of salvation, my boy,
That you learned from your mother at home.

I gave you to God in the cradle, my boy.
And have taught you the best that I knew,
And as long as God's mercy permits me to live,
I will never cease praying for you!

You will find in your satchel a Bible, my boy
The book of all others, the best!
It will teach you to live, and prepare you to die.
And will lead to the gates of the blessed.

When you leave me to seek you employment my boy,
By the world you have yet to be tried.
May you in all temptations and trials, my boy
Look to the Lord to confide!