Well mumma never heard what the neighbours were thinking
She didn't have time for that stuff
We were living with a man who spent all
Day drinking; he was big he was mean and rough
Mumma didn't 'fess to raising four up into a man
When I looked at the violence in our
Home I told mumma that I didn't understand
And she said
It's alright
She said it's alright
It's alright
Someday it's gonna be alright
Ooh each now wondered who would make
It to tomorrow with what was going on
The axes and the shotguns the whiskey and the
Would we make it to the dawn
And I'd like in my bed all night shaking I was fearing for my skin
I put the furniture against the bedroom door to
Keep the big man from getting in and my brother told me
It's alright
That's what he said
It's alright
It's alright
Someday it's gonna be alright
Alright
Well it was so long ago but it still affects me
Sometimes I wake up in a sweat
And I'd lay there remembering a small
Boy as scared and lost as I could get
And out of the darkness comes a vision and I wonder what it is I see
Then I realise it's the spirit of my
Mumma and she puts her arms around me
And she said
It's alright
My mumma said it's alright
It's alright she said to me
It's alright that's what she says
It's alright
It's alright
Someday it's gonna be alright
Alright
Gonna be alright