World War COVID Guerre mondiale: From WeaponWorld to PeaceWorld; Learner, begin... De la terre en armes au monde paisible ; Apprenti, débute

My father, by Judy Collins

By Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73332445 Season 16 Episode 53

Words and Music by Judy Collins

Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)

(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)

https://www.judycollins.com/lyrics/my-father

WORLD WAR COVID
Poems, theirs and mine

 My Father

Words and Music by Judy Collins
Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP)/ The Wildflowers Company (ASCAP)
(Administered by Universal Music Corp.)
https://www.judycollins.com/lyrics/my-father

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

 

COMMENT ? markmulligan@comcast.net