Christy Moore - Sonny's Dream lyrics

Sonny don’t go away I’m here all alone

Your daddy’s a sailor never comes home

Nights are so long silence goes on

I’m feeling so tired and not all that strong

Sonny lives on a farm on a wide open space

Take off your shoes stay out of the race

Lay down your head by the soft river bed

Sonny always remembers the words mammy said

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Sonny works the land though he’s barely a man

There’s not much to do but he does what he can

He sits by the window of his room on the stairs

Watching the waves gentle wash on the pier

Many years have passed on sonny’s old and along

His daddy the sailor never came home

Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been

But from the grave mammy still haunts his dream

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