title: My Fatherkey: 60sharp type: Chromaticgenre: Bbskill: AnyBy: Judy CollinsKey: Bb-6 -6 -6 -6 7 -6 -5* -5My fath-er al-ways prom-ised us-5* -5* -5 5 -3* -5That we would live in France-6 -6 -6 7 -6 -5* -5We’d go boat-ing on the Seine-6 -5* -5 5 -3* -6And I would learn to dance-7* -7* -7* 8-7*-7 7We lived in O-hi-o then-7 -7 -7 -7* -7He worked in the mines7* 7* 7* -7* 7*On his streams like boats7 -6 -7 77*7-6 -6 -5We knew we’d sail in timeAll my sisters soon were goneTo Denver and CheyenneMarrying their grownup dreamsThe lilacs and the manI stayed behind the youngest stillOnly danced aloneThe colors of my father’s dreamsFaded without a soundAnd I live in Paris nowMy children dance and dreamHearing the ways of a miner’s lifeIn words they’ve never seenI sail my memories of homeLike boats across the SeineAnd watch the Paris sunAs it sets in my father’s eyes againMy father always promised usThat we would live in FranceWe’d go boating on the SeineAnd I would learn to danceI sail my memories of homeLike boats across the SeineAnd watch the Paris sunAs it sets in my father’s eyes again