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My Father
Judy Collins

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 would 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

Set in my father's eyes again


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