My Father-Nina Simone

[ti:My Father] [ar:Nina Simone] [al:Baltimore] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Father - Nina Simone (妮娜·西蒙) [00:34.22]My father always promised me [00:35.66] [00:41.90]That we would live in France [00:44.10] [00:49.52]We'd go boating on the seine [00:52.58] [00:57.40]And I would learn to dance [00:59.85] [01:05.67]We lived in Ohio then [01:08.36] [01:15.22]He worked in the mines [01:16.34] [01:21.04]On his dreams like boats we knew [01:25.00] [01:26.64]We would sail in time in time [01:36.17] [01:53.97]My sisters are went away [01:56.86] [02:02.71]To Denver and Cheyenne [02:05.72] [02:10.87]Marrying their grownup dreams [02:14.70] [02:18.82]The lilacs and the man [02:21.75] [02:26.62]I stayed behind the youngest still [02:29.76] [02:35.87]And I danced alone [02:40.31] [02:43.95]Hoping of my fathers dreams [02:45.09] [02:47.97]Someday take me home take me home [03:01.57] [03:19.20]And I live in Paris now [03:20.76] [03:28.08]My children dance and sing [03:30.76] [03:39.12]Words of a miners tongue [03:42.10] [03:44.47]Language they've never sing [03:46.30] [03:52.32]I sail my memories of home [03:54.34] [03:59.34]Like boats across the Seine [04:02.66] [04:08.09]And watch my fathers eyes watch the setting sun [04:13.60] [04:15.35]It sets in my fathers eyes again