Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
Your daddy's a sailor who never comes home
The nights are so long and silence goes on
I'm feeling so tired, and not all that strong


Sonny lives on a farm
In a wide open space
Take off your shoes
Stay out of the race
Lay down your head
By the wide river bed
Sonny always remembers the words Mama says


Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
Your daddy's a sailor never comes home
The nights are so long and silence goes on
I'm feeling so tired, and not all that strong


Sonny works on the land
Though he's barely a man
There not much to do, but he does the best he can
He sits by his window
In his room by the stairs
Watching the waves
drifting soft on the peer,


Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
Daddy's a sailor never comes home
The nights are so long silence goes on
I'm feeling so tired, and not all that strong

Many years have rolled on
Sonny's old and alone
His daddy's a sailor
Never came home
And sometimes he wonders
What his life might have been
But from the grave
Mama still haunts his dreams


Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone
Your daddy's a sailor never comes home
The nights are so long silence goes on
I'm feeling so tired, and not all that strong
Sonny don't go away