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My father always promised us
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We would live in France

We'd go sailing on the Seine
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And I would learn to dance


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We lived in Ohio then
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And he worked in the mines
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On his dreams, like boats, we knew 
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We would sail in time___



All my sisters soon were gone
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To Denver and Cheyenne

Marrying their grownup dreams
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The lilacs and the man


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I stayed behind the youngest
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And only danced alone
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The colours of my father's dreams
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Faded without a sound



And now I live in Paris
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And my children dance and dream

Hearing the story of a miner's life
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In words they've never seen


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I sailed my memories of old
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Like boats across the Seine
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And I watched the Paris sun
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Set in my father's eyes again