מילים לשיר Melancholy Child – Pam Tillis

A baby with a baby just barely seventeen
My mother mourned her innocence
A daddy on the road added to her tears and trials
While she bounced on her knee Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child
My mother's lullaby that train that ran behind our home
A whippoorwill on a window sill The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song
But everything sounds lonesome to a melancholy child Trying to outdistance my own melancholy child
I thought I could outrun the emptiness inside of me
So I went a little crazy, went a little wild
Now a restless blood runs in our family
I met a kind and gentle man who thinks the world of me But when I can't explain to him the tears that fill my eyes
And when he looks my way it is a woman that he sees
You take a black Irish temper and some solemn Cherokee
He takes me in his arms and rocks his melancholy child There are thorns on every rose to this I'm reconciled
A Southern sense of humor and you got someone like me They're just a little sharper to a melancholy child
And in my own babe's eyes I see the signs of a melancholy child
Heaven help us all, another melancholy child.