Colin Hay

Dear Father

Colin Hay


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Dear father I’ve got your photographs
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Thank God for photographs hip hip hooray

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Dear father I know you loved to laugh though
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In most of your photographs it didn’t seem that way

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Dear father I can’t let you go just yet
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And I still can’t forget you walking around

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Dear father you’re starring in my dreams
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And you’re stealing all the scenes where did you go?

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In my wandering mind
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I stumble through time
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I sing through the air
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I look for you there

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Dear father I never got to say goodbye
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I was singing on the River Clyde and I didn’t know

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Dear father I see you dancing still
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And I think I always will till the day I die

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Dear father I feel your healing hands
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As I fall asleep I can, plain as the day

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Dear father you’re in my reflection now
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As I reach out and touch you now where did you go?

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Dear father I am still curious why
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You still make me furious it was so long ago

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Dear father I’ve got your photographs
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Thank God for photographs hip hip hooray