Daddy

Well I’m finally gonna write you that letter

That was owed you for a long long time

But I do hope that ya’ll are doing fine

Well how is Berry and Virginia

Are they still living down on the farm

You know sometimes I get so lonesome daddy

I wish I’d never left home

Are you doing all the things the doctor said you oughta do

Did the crops bring in what you thought they would

Well I might as well got to the point

Last night I tried to call you on the phone

What I’m getting at

I guess is if I had the money daddy I’d come home

Cause every night I hear an old southbound train whistle a-blowing

And daddy it’s calling me home

Wheeling West Virginia and Nashville Tennessee

By the way how’s old Lee

And I done changed my name so many times

I don’t even know who I am

And daddy I sure miss them pinto beans

And corn bread and country ham

I didn’t have no business coming way out west

Where she was born raising younguns like all the rest

Well I know it now that’s why I’m writing

And why I tried to call you on the phone

What I’m really trying to say

Is if you’ll send me the money I’ll come home

Cause every night I hear an old southbound train whistle a-blowing

And daddy it’s calling me home

Cause every night I hear an old southbound train whistle a-blowing

And daddy it’s calling me h-ome