Melancholy Child-Pam Tillis

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[00:00.00]Melancholy Child - Pam Tillis
[00:16.82]A baby with a baby
[00:18.45]Just barely seventeen
[00:20.43]My mother mourned her innocence
[00:22.07]As she bounced on her knee
[00:24.33]A daddy on the road
[00:25.83]Added to the tears and trials
[00:29.21]Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child
[00:37.99]The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song
[00:41.67]My mother's lullaby
[00:42.84]That train that rain behind our home
[00:45.82]A whippoorwill on a windowsill
[00:47.50]It should have made me smile
[00:50.51]But everything sounds lonely to a melancholy child
[00:59.24]Now a restless blood runs in our family
[01:03.49]I thought I could outrun the emptiness inside of me
[01:09.20]So I went a little crazy and I went a little wild
[01:13.28]Trying to outdistance my own melancholy child
[01:32.88]I met a kind and gentle man
[01:34.67]Who thinks the world of me
[01:36.63]When he looks my way
[01:38.08]It's a woman that he sees
[01:40.46]But when I can't explain to him
[01:42.48]The tears that fill my eyes
[01:45.35]He takes me in his arms
[01:46.88]And rocks his melancholy child
[01:49.53]You take a black Irish temper
[01:51.96]And some solemn Cherokee
[01:54.02]A Southern sense of humor
[01:55.68]And you got someone like me
[02:00.22]There are thorns on every rose
[02:01.72]To this I'm reconciled
[02:04.01]They're just a little sharper to a melancholy child
[02:09.48]And in my own babe's eyes
[02:13.51]I see the signs of a melancholy child
[02:29.26]Heaven help us all another melancholy child