Sonnys Dream

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Subject: v/valdy/sonnys_dream.crd
Date: 	Fri, 1 May 98 00:13:10 -0600
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sonny's dream
transcribed by tom watson

mrtom@bigfoot.com


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Sonny lives on a farm, in the wide open space

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you can kick off your sneekers, and give up the race
         
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you can lay your self down, by a sweet river bed
      
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sonny always remembers, what it was his moma said__________
chorus

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sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone

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and your daddy?s a sailor, and he never comes home
        
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and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on
      
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and I?m feeling so tired, I?m not all that strong_________
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Sonny caries a load, He is barely a man

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there?s not all that much to do, still he does the best he can
        
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and he lives in a room, at the top of the stairs
        
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and the sea keeps on rollin in it?s done that for years________
chorus

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sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone

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and your daddy?s a singer, and he never comes home
        
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and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on
      
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and I?m feeling so tired, I?m not all that strong_________
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instrumental

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Towns a hundred miles away Sonny?s never been there

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he just goes to the highway and he stands there and stares
        
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and the mail comes at four and the mail man is old
      
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yet he?s still dreaming dreams filled with silver and gold
chorus

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sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone

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and your daddy?s a sailor, and he never comes home
        
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and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on
      
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and I?m feeling so tired, I?m not all that strong_________

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sonny don?t go away,  sonny don?t go away