
with Alison Limerick
My father always promised usThat we would live in FranceWe'd go boating on the SeineAnd I would learn to dance We lived in Ohio thenHe worked in the minesOn his dreams like boatsWe knew we would sail in time All my sisters soon were goneTo Denver and CheyenneMarrying their grownup dreamsThe lilacs and the man I stayed behind the youngest stillOnly danced aloneThe colors of my father's dreamsFaded without a sound And I live in Paris nowMy children dance and dreamHearing the ways of a miner's lifeIn words they've never seen I sail my memories of homeLike boats across the SeineAnd watch the Paris sunAs it sets in my father's eyes again My father always promised usThat we would live in FranceWe'd go boating on the SeineAnd I would learn to dance I sail my memories of homeLike boats across the SeineAnd watch the Paris sunAs it sets in my father's eyes again
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