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My father always promised me |
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That we would live in France |
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We'd go boating on the seine |
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And I would learn to dance |
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We lived in Ohio then |
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He worked in the mines |
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On his dreams like boats, we knew |
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We would sail in time, in time |
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My sisters are [Incomprehensible] went away |
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To Denver and Cheyenne |
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Marrying their grownup dreams |
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The lilacs and the man |
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I stayed behind the youngest still |
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And I danced alone |
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Hoping of my fathers dreams |
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Someday, take me home, take me home |
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And I live in Paris now |
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My children dance and sing |
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Words of a miners tongue |
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Language they've never sing |
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I sail my memories of home |
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Like boats across the Seine |
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And watch my fathers eyes, watch the setting sun |
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It sets in my fathers eyes again |
