Standard (EADGBE)

  In an Appalachian, Greyhound station

  She sits there waiting, in a family way

  'Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her'

  'Tell all the others, I'll write someday'

Chorus

  From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother

  kept undercovers, like some bad dream

  While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered

  They run like water, through a mountain stream

  In a cold and grey town, a nurse say's 'Lay down'

  'This ain't no playground, and this ain't home'

  Someones children, out having children

  in a grey stone building, all al-one

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  Some where else bound, Smokey Mountain Greyhound

  She bows her head down, humming lullabys

  'Your daddy never, meant to hurt you ever'

  'he just don't live here, but you've got his eyes'

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-Paul McGinness