Sonny lives on a in a wide open space Take off your shoes, stay out of the race Lay down your head, on a river bed Sonny always remembers the words Mamma says
[CHORUS:] Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone Your Daddy's sailor, never comes home Nights are so long, silence goes I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong
works on the land, though he's barely a man There's not much to do but he does what he can Sits his window in his room by the stairs Watching the waves drifting soft on the pier
Many have rolled on, Sonny's old and alone His Daddy the sailor, never came home Sometimes he wonders his life might have been But from the grave Mamma still haunts his
[CHORUS] Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone Your Daddy's a sailor, never comes Nights are so long, silence goes on I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong