Someplace Far Away

by: Hal Ketchum

Daddy brought home a photograph

from the paper yesterday.

It showed a line of wagons

Movin' someplace far away.

That picture made my Daddy smile

And it made my Momma cry.

Seems like Daddy's wagonload of dreams

have long since passed him by.

And the dreams that make a sparrow fly

can make an eagle fall.

One that makes a rich man money

Ain't no dream at all.

It's a crying shame to wake up

Just to find its all been broke in two.

Careful what your dreamin' cause it someday may come true.

2. Well, he talked on all through suppertime

'bout a good prospector's life.

Couldn't see Momma didn't want to be

No good prospector's wife.

He said we best sail out and go

before the weather turns to cold.

Maybe buy ourselves an extry horse

to carry all that gold.

3. Well, I got up as soon as the first light came

to start the mornin' fire.

Wonderin' if my Momma's will

Cooled that man's desire.

And inside the stove upon the coals

And ash and paper lay.

Was a ghostly line of wagons

movin' someplace far away.

(repeat last line of chorus)

There! I think that should erase the brain fart.

Later.