Matilda lyrics

Matilda, with your calloused hands

Where Will goes you will follow

In search of better land

Matilda, never mind where you have been

Forget about Missouri, forget about your kin

Matilda, it's too bad your baby's gone

But he's rested in his cradle by the river

'Neath a simple grave of stone

Matilda, musn't let Will see you cry

Covered wagons keep on rollin'

Never question or ask why

Matilda, work your fingers to the bone

Read your Bible, pray the Indians might spare you

'Til you and Will reach your new home

Matilda, just five hundred miles to go

You know Will's so proud of you

Though he never tells you so

Matilda, Matilda