My Father - Alan Shulman Albertine Robinson Alfred Brown Babi Floyd Barry Finclair Charles Libove Charles McCracken David Nadien Debbie McDuffie Emanuel Vardi Eric Gale frank floyd Gary King Harry Glickman Harry Lookofsky Herbert Sorkin Jerry Friedman Jim Madison Jonathan Abramowitz Joshie Armstead Lamar Alsop Maeretha Stewart Marvin Morgenstern Max Ellen Milt Grayson Nicky Marrero Nina Simone Ray Simpson Richard Sortomme

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 would we 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 my colors father's of dreams

Someday take me home

Take me home

And I live in Paris now

My children dance and dream

Hways of a miner's time

In words they've never seen

I sail my memories of home

Like boats across the Seine

And watch my father's eyes

Watch the rising sun

As it sets in my father's eyes again