Key: G
Introduction: C
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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone,
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your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home.
D
Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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D
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
G
Sonny lives on a farm, on a wide open space,
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take off your shoes, stay out of the race.
D
Lay down your head, by the soft river bed,
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D
Sonny always remembers the words Mamma said.
G
Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone,
C
G
your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home.
D
Nights are so long, silence goes on,
C
G
D
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
G
Sonny works the land, though he's barely a man,
C
G
there's not much to do, but he does what he can.
D
He sits by the window of his room on the stairs,
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watching the waves gently wash on the pier.
G
Many years have passed on, Sonny's old and alone,
C
G
his Daddy, the sailor, never came home.
D
Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been,
C
G
D
but from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams.
G
Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone,
C
G
your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home.
D
Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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G
D
I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
G
Sonny, don't go away.