Verse 1
[F] [Dm]
My father always promised me
[Gm] [C]
That we would live in France
[F] [Dm]
We'd go boating on the Seine
[Gm7] [C]
And I would learn to dance
Verse 2
[Dm] [G7]
We lived in Ohio then
[C] [Cm]
He worked in the mines
[F7]
On his dreams like boats we knew
[Bb]
He would sail in time
[F]
In time
Verse 3
[F] [Dm]
My sisters all grew up and went away
[Gm] [C2]
To Denver and Cheyenne
[F] [Dm]
Marrying their grownup dreams
[Gm] [C]
The lilacs and the man
Verse 4
[Dm] [G]
I stayed behind the youngest still
[C] [Cm]
And I danced alone
[F7]
Hoping that my father's dreams
[Bb]
Would someday take me home
[F]
Take me home
Verse 5
[F] [Dm]
And I live in Paris now
[Gm] [C] [F] [Dm]
My children dance and sing
[Gm]
Word’s of a miner's tongue
[C7]
A language they've never seen
Verse 6
[Dm] [G7]
I sail my memories of home
[C] [Cm]
Like boats across the Seine
[F7]
And watch my father‘s eyes
[Bb]
Watch the setting sun
[F] [F]
Set in my father's eyes — again
