Runaway Girl

Runaway Girl - Dolly Parton/Family/Dorothy Jo Owens

Lyrics by：Dorothy Jo Hope Owens Parton

Composed by：Dorothy Jo Hope Owens Parton

My mother left my daddy

Ran away with another man

It wasn't very long until

My daddy married again

They had a little boy they

Called Jimmy my half brother

They said he was just like

My dad and I was like my mother

Now Jimmy's old enough

To go to school he's so mean

He tells my daddy lies

On me just to start a scene

My daddy beats me every

Day for one thing or another

And tells me every day

I'm getting more

And more like mother

One day at school

A boy asked me if he

Could carry my books

And before I could say yes

I know little

Jimmy gave me a look

That told me I would get

A beating whenever I got home

And so he ran ahead of me

And left me with his

Boy alone alone

My mind was running wild

I wondered how much could I take

When this boy I barely

Knew asked me for a date

I told him I'd do

Anything just to get away

So we made our plans

For me to run away that day

Now I'm living in a dingy

Room in a dirty part of town

Oh oh oh oh

And this boy I barely know

Hardly ever comes around

Oh oh oh oh

But he pays my rent and buys

My food and calls himself my lover

Daddy tells folks back home I ran away

Just like my mother

Oh if I could only tell my father

I'd rather have the real

True love of a daddy and a mother