Karaoké Sonny's Dream Christy Moore

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 feelin' 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 Mama said

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 feelin' so tired and not all that strong

Sonny works the land though he's barely a man

There's not much to do

He does what he can

He sits by the window of his room on the stairs

Watchin' the waves gently wash on the pier

Many years have pasted on

Sonny's old and alone

His Daddy the sailor never came home

Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been

But from the grave

Mommy still haunts his dreams

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 feelin' so tired and not all that strong

Sonny don't go away