No One Knows My Name - Gillian Welch

Oh my mother was just a girl seventeen

Oh my mother was just a girl seventeen

And my dad was passin'

Through doing things a man will do

Oh my mother was just a girl seventeen

It's a wonder that I'm in this world at all

It's a wonder that I'm in this world at all

And I have a life to claim

Though I really don't know my name

It's a wonder that I'm in this world at all

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

But it's written up in the sky

And I'll see it by and by

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

Well I had a good mother

and dad just the same

Well I had a good mother

and dad just the same

And they took me to their breast

And they surely stood the test

Well I had a good mother

and dad just the same

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

Just another baby born to a girl lost and lorn

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

Now and then there's a lonesome thought

in my mind

Now and then there's a lonesome thought

in my mind

And on the crowded street

I see a strangers face that looks like me

Now and then there's a lonesome thought

in my mind

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name

But I'll see it by and by

Cause it's written up in the sky

Ain't one soul in the whole world

knows my name