Sitting On The Front Porch Swing - Dolly Parton/Tammy Wynette/Loretta Lynn

作词：Buddy Sheffield

作曲：Buddy Sheffield

I remember the time

when the bloom was on the cotton

When our hearts chased the clouds like

the swallows on their wings

Winter cares which we're already few

or soon forgotten

Just sittin' on the front porch swing

Oh we sit every Sunday

and watched the married ladies

And we dreamed of white dresses

and church bells in the spring

And they talked and painted their nails

while they let us hold their babies

Sittin' on the front porch swing

Where was I when the time

came to join the married ladies

Why did I paint the nail

when the finger had no ring

Why do I sit at night

and long to hold their baby

Sittin' on the front porch swing

When the mind longs to follow

but the memory erases

And the lips form the words

that the heart no longer sings

When the leaves in the hollow

have been died to match our faces

Sittin' on the front porch swing

Oh we'll dream of the time

when the bloom was on the cotton

When our hearts chased the clouds

like the swallows on their wings

But the words to the rhyme

are the only things forgotten

Sittin' on the front porch swing

Sittin' on the front porch swing