Ooh, I swear this February's cold   I stole a chance to hide down on Duboise Siding road   Feeling like an orphan looking for a home   Slowly I wake and the sky turns into gold   Right now, I think he's headed down 15   To find a mill down there he says no-ones ever seen   His father took him there when he was just fifteen   Well, I don't know but I could've sworn I'd been      Sweet Orphan won't you say hello to the mill pond for me   Sweet orphan come alive      I know I promised I would stay   For at least a year or more and I'd work for half the pay   With a thousand voices ringing in my weary head   Softly they sing to me in bed      Sweet Orphan won't you say hello to the mill pong for me   Sweet Orphan come alive   Sweet Orphan if you say it's true I'll believe you for a while   Sweet Orphan come alive      And the rain it whistles lonely on this [pond   And I think it's sad you never learned to swim   Now they've torn the old mill down   And your dress blues are on the ground   Now there's nothing left, just moss and tired trees      Sweet Orphan won't you say hello to the mill pond for me   Sweet Orphan come alive   Slowly, softly, sweetly come alive   Sweet Orphan if you say it's true I'll believe you for a while   Sweet Orphan come alive   I can't hear your voice any more