My Father Lyrics - Live At Wolf Trap - Judy Collins

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 

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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 

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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