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You were born in Missouri, to a mother all aloneYour daddy was out on the road againAnd it stayed like that till the age of five, when your father diedBut you never could find anger, he was the traveling kindSometimes she would tell you stories,As she laid you down to sleep. About how he had played the biggest stageThe years went by and you grew up strongBut there was something you just couldn’t findYou turned 18, and your momma gently weptAnd told you the last words that he saidSon take your horses and runAnd you will know this country like the back of your handThe names will escape you, but the faces never willThis one life is yours and yours aloneThanksgiving came and passed like rain on southern afternoonYou were living like you never had beforeAnd a friend of yours you’d known in schoolCalled you up to have a drinkHe said there’s someone that I think you should meetYou laughed it off and claimed circumstanceWould keep you from a brideLetras de cancionesThe truth was those thoughts led your bones to shakeBut he wouldn’t accept a coward’s words and the plans were made that night6 months later she became your wife9 months later your little girl cried, for the first timeSon take your horses and runAnd you will know this country like the back of your handThe names will escape you, but the faces never willThis one life is yours and yours aloneAnd I loved your mother, your sister and your brotherThey made me a man that could be lovedAnd it was Jesus there to save meFrom the life that I got wrongAnd I’m so glad I never walked aloneOne day you realized you were the same age as meWhen I passed awayYou called mother and told her she was lovedThat night after you read Brown BearAnd sang your child to sleepYou thanked the good Lord for familyThat we aren’t together but one day we would be From Letras Mania