My Father-Nina Simone

[00:00.00]My Father （的父亲）-Nina Simone （娜·西蒙） [00:34.221]My father always promised me [00:41.901]That we would live in France [00:49.521]We'd go boating on the seine [00:57.401]And I would learn to dance [01:05.671]We lived in Ohio then [01:15.221]He worked in the mines [01:21.41]On his dreams like boats we knew [01:26.641]We would sail in time in time [01:53.971]My sisters are went away [02:02.711]To Denver and Cheyenne [02:10.871]Marrying their grownup dreams [02:18.821]The lilacs and the man [02:26.621]I stayed behind the youngest still [02:35.871]And I danced alone [02:43.951]Hoping of my fathers dreams [02:47.971]Someday take me home take me home [03:19.201]And I live in Paris now [03:28.81]My children dance and sing [03:39.121]Words of a miners tongue [03:44.471]Language they've never sing [03:52.321]I sail my memories of home [03:59.341]Like boats across the Seine [04:08.91]And watch my fathers eyes watch the setting sun [04:15.351]It sets in my fathers eyes again