Papa's Wagon-Ray Lynam/Carmol Taylor

[ti:Papa's Wagon] [ar:Ray Lynam] [al:The Best Of Irish Showbands] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Papa's Wagon - Ray Lynam/Carmol Taylor [00:12.73]I can see us now riding in a brand new wagon [00:17.61]Happy as a king upon a throne [00:22.45]Papa wearing overalls and Mama with her bonnet [00:26.95]Riding in a brand new wagon going home [00:31.98]Today is the first time I've been home in many a years [00:37.04]Remembering how things used to [00:38.62]Be I can't hold back the tears [00:41.83]The house is barely standing [00:43.56]And the barn has rotted down [00:46.67]And someone planted trees all [00:48.68]Over Papa's farming ground [00:52.81]The weeds had almost hidden [00:54.61]Papa's wagon standing there [00:57.54]I thought how long it's been since [00:59.40]Gentle hands touched it with care [01:02.29]I remember when he bought [01:03.93]It even Mama went along [01:07.33]He walked to led the mules to town [01:09.40]And proudly brought it home [01:13.48]I can see us now riding in a brand new wagon [01:18.45]Happy as a king upon a throne [01:23.35]Papa wearing overalls and Mama with her bonnet [01:27.81]Riding in a brand new wagon going home [01:40.63]I remember Tammy Jones [01:42.67]That lived the next house down [01:45.31]She was in the wagon every time we went to town [01:50.11]And when I told her of my plans [01:52.20]She cried and said you're wrong [01:54.89]But I just wouldn't listen so I ran away from home [02:00.73]Too young to get a job I robbed a man in Frisco yard [02:05.78]The wagon I had rode next was driven by a guard [02:10.65]Mam and Pap they kept my secret till their dying day [02:15.20]That's why no one could find me [02:17.17]When they both had passed a way [02:21.49]And I can see us now riding in a brand new wagon [02:26.42]Happy as a king upon a throne [02:31.27]Papa wearing overalls and Mama with her bonnet [02:35.84]Riding in a brand new wagon going home [02:40.92]And i can see us now [02:42.77]Riding in a brand new wagon