My Father-Judy Collins

[ti:My Father] [ar:Judy Collins] [al:Voices] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Father (我的父亲) - Judy Collins [00:14.61]My father always promised us [00:17.16] [00:18.87]That we would live in France [00:21.39] [00:25.31]We'd go boating on the Seine [00:27.64] [00:30.08]And I would learn to dance [00:32.71] [00:36.17]We lived in Ohio then [00:38.74] [00:41.02]He worked in the mines [00:42.87] [00:45.90]On his dreams like boats [00:48.15] [00:49.42]We knew we would sail in time [00:56.38] [01:08.88]All my sisters soon were gone [01:11.44] [01:12.43]To Denver and Cheyenne [01:15.03] [01:18.90]Marrying their grownup dreams [01:21.29] [01:22.83]The lilacs and the man [01:26.12] [01:28.05]I stayed behind the youngest still [01:32.15] [01:34.13]Only danced alone [01:35.53] [01:38.09]The colors of my father's dreams were faded [01:43.26] [01:46.35]Faded without a sound [01:51.70] [02:04.66]And I live in Paris now [02:07.56] [02:10.02]My children dance and dream [02:12.41] [02:15.42]Hearing the ways of a miner's life [02:17.89] [02:19.64]In words they've never seen [02:22.22] [02:25.17]I sail my memories of home [02:28.24] [02:29.48]Like boats across the Seine [02:32.91] [02:34.63]And watch the Paris sun [02:36.48] [02:39.09]As it sets in my father's eyes again [02:48.42] [03:43.41]My father always promised us [03:46.34] [03:48.18]That we would live in France [03:51.27] [03:55.04]We'd go boating on the Seine [03:58.01] [03:59.97]And I would learn to dance [04:02.74] [04:06.34]I sail my memories of home [04:09.16] [04:09.79]Like boats across the Seine [04:12.65] [04:16.22]And watch the Paris sun [04:18.43] [04:20.79]As it sets in my father's eyes again