[Intro]
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[Chorus]
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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
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Your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home,
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Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.

[Verse]
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Sonny lives on a farm, in a wide open space
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Take off your shoes, stay out of the race
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Lay down your head, on a soft river bed
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Sonny always remembers the words Mamma says.

[Chorus]
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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
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Your Daddy's a sailor, he never comes home,
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Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.

[Verse]
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Sonny works on the land, though he's barely a man
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There's not much to do but he does what he can
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Sits by his window in his room by the stairs
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Watching the waves drifting soft on the pier.

[Verse]
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Many years have passed on, Sonny's old and alone
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His Daddy the sailor, never came home
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Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been
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But from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams.

[Chorus]
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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
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Your Daddy's a sailor, he never comes home,
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Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
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Sonny don't go away,