[Intro]
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[Chorus]
G
Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
G C G
Your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home,
D7
Nights are so long, silence goes on,
C G D7
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
[Verse]
G
Sonny lives on a farm, in a wide open space
G C D7
Take off your shoes, stay out of the race
D7
Lay down your head, on a soft river bed
C G D
Sonny always remembers the words Mamma says.
[Chorus]
G
Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
G C G
Your Daddy's a sailor, he never comes home,
D7
Nights are so long, silence goes on,
C G D7
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
[Verse]
G
Sonny works on the land, though he's barely a man
G C G
There's not much to do but he does what he can
D7
Sits by his window in his room by the stairs
C G
Watching the waves drifting soft on the pier.
[Verse]
G
Many years have passed on, Sonny's old and alone
G C G
His Daddy the sailor, never came home
D7
Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been
C G D7
But from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams.
[Chorus]
G
Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
G C G
Your Daddy's a sailor, he never comes home,
D7
Nights are so long, silence goes on,
C G D7
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
G
Sonny don't go away,
