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The Rockin' Chair
Dale Ann Bradley

Dale Ann Bradley

Cumberland River Dreams

The Rockin' Chair

It isn't much to look at

Standing by the fireplace

Down the hall from my room

Where I can always see

The arms are worn, the seat is frey

Seems it's always been that way

That rockin' chair, that's as old as me


Daddy carved the arms from solid oak

And made a cane bottom seat

You know he gave it to my momma

On the day that I was born

He said he was so proud to have a child

And I would always be the one

To help momma if he were ever gone.


You know I heard my momma

Sing her songs

As she rocked her babies

One by one

In that chair that was as old as me

And I heard her praying every night

Lord give me strength to raise 'em right

She had the strength

Just like that old oak tree

That made the rockin' chair

That was as old as me


Sometimes when I was asleep

I'd wake to hear those runners creak

On that hard wood floor

While momma would sing alone

And as a child it always eased my mind

To hear momma sing in time

After her working day was done.


Well I heard her laugh, I heard her cry

On the day that my daddy died

She rocked in that chair

Her rocked there all alone


And when I ran to her with open arms

She said no, don't you be alarmed

Cus daddy gave us the strength

To carry on


You see your daddy picked

That big oak tree

When he found out you were a part of me

Oh he's left us something special

He'd want us to believe

And even though he's not around

We can draw our strength

Up through the ground

Just like he did

When he turned that old oak tree

Into this rockin' chair

He made for you and me


Well mom and me, we got by

And when times were hard

We'd always try to

Remember what dad could always see

And now I have a family of my own

And I told them just how I've grown

From this rockin' chair

That's as old as me


I can still hear momma

Sing her songs

As I rock my babies

One by one

In this chair that's as old as me

And I'm still praying every night

Lord give me strength to raise 'em right

Like you did when you turned

That old oak tree

Into this rockin' chair

That's as old as me

Oh this rockin' chair will always be

A part of me


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