Orphan Girl

Welch alone wrote it; Rawlings plays on it, though his role on the track is not documented separately. A woman with no family asks God to reunite her with relatives in Heaven. Songfacts, a single source, says it was inspired by an old Stanley Brothers tune heard in her car, with the lyrics finished while she worked at Lyric Springs Country Inn in Nashville, and that she played it when meeting Almo, recommended by Alison Krauss's manager. Welch told Paste in 2016 that she did not realize it was autobiographical.

Tim and Mollie O'Brien recorded it in 1994 on Away Out on the Mountain, and Emmylou Harris in 1995 on Wrecking Ball, track ten at 3:15, with Daniel Lanois, Larry Mullen Jr. and Malcolm Burn among the players; Wrecking Ball won the 1996 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Welch played it at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival on July 15, 2011. We found no chart entry or setlist count.