Sonny lives on a farm, in the wide open space you can kick off your sneekers, and give up the race you can lay your self down, by a sweet river bed sonny always remembers, what it was his moma said
Sonny don¹t go away, i am here all alone and your daddy¹s a sailor, and he never comes home and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on and i¹m feeling so tired, i¹m not all that strong sonny caries a load, he is barely a man there¹s not all that much to do, still he does the best he can and he lives in a room, at the top of the stairs and the sea keeps on rollin in it¹s done that for years
Sonny don¹t go away, i am here all alone and your daddy¹s a singer, and he never comes home and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on and i¹m feeling so tired, i¹m not all that strong instrumental towns a hundred miles away sonny¹s never been there he just goes to the highway and he stands there and stares and the mail comes at four and the mail man is old yet he¹s still dreaming dreams filled with silver and gold sonny don¹t go away, i am here all alone and your daddy¹s a sailor, and he never comes home and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on and i¹m feeling so tired, i¹m not all that strong sonny don¹t go away