Key: C
Introduction:
C
Sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone
C F C
And your daddy?s a sailor, who never comes home,
G
And the nights get so long, and the silence goes on,
F C G
And I?m feeling so tired?I?m not all that strong.
C
Sonny lives on a farm, in the wide open space,
C F C
And you can take off your sneakers and give up the race.
G
And you can lay yourself down by a sweet river bed
F C G
But Sonny always remembers what it was his mama said,
and she said
C
Sonny caries a load he is barely a man.
C F C
There ain?t nothin? to do, still he does what he can.
G
And he watches the sea from a room by the stairs.
F C G
The waves keep on rolling?they?ve done that for years.
Chorus
C
It?s a hundred miles to town. Sonny?s never been there,
C F C
Yet he walks to the highway and stands there and stares,
G
And the mail comes at four and the mail man is old
F C G
But he still dreams his dreams of silver and gold.
Chorus
C
Sonny?s dreams can?t be real, they're just stories he's read.
F C
They?re just stars in his eyes, just dreams in his head.
G
He is hungry inside for the wild world outside,
F C G
And I know I can?t hold on, I?ve tried, and I?ve tried, and I?ve tried.
Chorus