Sonny - Mary Black, Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keane

Sonny lives on a farm, in a wide open space

Take off your shoes, stay out of the race

Lay down your head, on a soft river bed

Sonny always remembers the words Mamma says

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 works on the land, though he’s barely a man

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

Sits by his window in his room by the stairs

Watching the waves drifting soft on the pier

Many years have rolled on, Sonny’s old and alone

His Daddy’s sailor, never came home

Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been

Still from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams