My Father (Letra)

Nina Simone

Jazz

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My father always promised me
That we would live in France
We’d go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

All my sisters soon were gone
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
The colors of my father’s dreams
Faded without a sound

And I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner’s life
In words they’ve never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father’s eyes again

My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We’d go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father’s eyes again

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My Father (Letra)

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I shudder to think what my father would think
If he came home and found me in bed
With more then just one
But several of some
Lovely big strawberries

He’ll probably shout
Give me a hell of a clout
Or perhaps a good kick up the rear
But one thing’s for sure
I’ll have to endure
A great deal of pain so to speak

I know it’s not right
But for a laugh every night
I knock on people’s doors
And shout things like up yours

I’ll never know why
But for some reason i
Never did well at school
All i did was break rules and tell lies

His birthday’s next week
So i though as a treat
I would buy him his favourite book
It’s not one of those poetic prose
Just full frontal nudity

My Father (Letra)

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My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We’d go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

All my sisters soon were gone
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
The colors of my father’s dreams
Faded without a sound

And I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner’s life
In words they’ve never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father’s eyes again

My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We’d go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father’s eyes again

My Father (Letra)

Gilbert O'sullivan

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Judy collins

Original lyrics by judy collins

My father always promised me
That we would live in france
We’d go boating on the seine
And i would learn to dance

We lived in ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

All my sisters soon were gone
To denver and cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
The colors of my father’s dreams
Faded without a sound

And i live in paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner’s life
In words they’ve never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the seine
And watch the paris sun
As it sets in my father’s eyes again

My father always promised us
That we would live in france
We’d go boating on the seine
And i would learn to dance

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the seine
And watch the paris sun
As it sets in my father’s eyes again