My Father-Judy Collins

[ti:My Father] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:So Early In The Spring] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Father - Judy Collins [00:13.84]My father always promised us [00:16.70] [00:17.58]That we would live in France [00:21.90] [00:25.40]We'd go boating on the Seine [00:29.67] [00:30.33]And I would learn to dance [00:34.97] [00:37.52]We lived in Ohio then [00:41.56] [00:42.91]He worked in the mines [00:47.17] [00:48.37]On his dreams like boats [00:51.17]We knew we sail in time [01:00.60] [01:13.06]All my sisters soon were gone [01:16.51] [01:17.87]To Denver and Cheyenne [01:21.35] [01:23.94]Marrying their grownup dreams [01:28.10] [01:29.18]The lilacs and the man [01:34.53] [01:35.87]I stayed behind the youngest still [01:40.87] [01:41.43]Only danced alone [01:46.41] [01:48.45]The colors of my father's dreams [01:52.05] [01:53.31]Faded without a sound [01:59.52] [02:12.26]And I live in Paris now [02:15.80] [02:16.50]My children dance and dream [02:21.40] [02:22.94]Hearing the ways of a miner's life [02:26.32] [02:29.19]In words they've never seen [02:33.41] [02:34.23]I sail my memories of home [02:39.31] [02:40.60]Like boats across the Seine [02:45.19] [02:46.58]And watch the Paris sun [02:50.95]Set in my father's eyes again [02:59.31] [03:57.76]My father always promised us [04:01.18] [04:03.16]That we would live in France [04:06.43] [04:09.29]We'd go boating on the Seine [04:14.02] [04:14.87]And I would learn to dance [04:19.34] [04:21.73]I sail my memories of home [04:26.47]Like boats across the Seine [04:31.88] [04:33.61]And watch the Paris sun [04:36.80] [04:37.44]Set in my father's eyes again