My Father

My Father - Judy Collins/Chrissie Hynde

Written by：Connor Reeves/Graham Lyle

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'd 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 set 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