Lyrics:

My father always promised me

That we would live in France

We'd go boating on the Seine

And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats we knew
We'd sail in time

My sisters all grew up went away
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man
I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
Hopingg, hoping that my father's dreams
Would someday take me home

I live in Paris now

My children dance and dream

Hearing the ways of a miner's life

In words they've never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch my father's eyes
Watching the setting sun

Set in my father's eyes again