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The Great Get Gone - My Papa's Waltz Lyrics



The Great Get Gone - My Papa's Waltz Lyrics
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The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Oh, papa, I see you, I hear you, I cry
Through the dancing of the days and the clouds in your eyes
Oh, papa there's a gate where we can both swagger on
Well, sorry, I didn't make it but some days I'm not that strong
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
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The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Oh, papa, I see you, I hear you, I cry
Through the dancing of the days and the clouds in your eyes
Oh, papa there's a gate where we can both swagger on
Well, sorry, I didn't make it but some days I'm not that strong
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
My papa's waltz, my papa's waltz
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
Up and down the halls till my papa falls
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Writer: DAVID LEO DIAMOND, THEODORE ROETHKE
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Performed By: The Great Get Gone
Language: English
Length: 2:47
Written by: DAVID LEO DIAMOND, THEODORE ROETHKE
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