My Father - Melanie

作词：Judy Collins

作曲：Judy Collins

My father always promised us

we would live in France

We'd go sailing on the Seine

and I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then

and he worked in the mines

On his streams like boats

we knew we would sail in time

All my sisters soon

were gone to Denver and Cheyenne

Marrying their grown up dreams

the lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest

and only danced alone

The colours of my father's dreams

faded without a sound

And now I live in Paris

and my children dance and dream

Hearing the story of a miner's life in words

they've never seen

I sail my memories of old like boats

across the Seine

And I watch the Paris sun

set in my father's eyes again

My father always promised us

we would live in France

We'd go sailing on the Seine

and I would learn to dance