Music My Dad Played To Me

As I gaze down my life's road of travel

And I think of the changes I've had

It seems long ago since I lived as a boy

Back home with mother and dad

Back home with mother and dad

I remember the stories Dad told me

And the old Irish songs he would sing

But our time together was such a short while

Somebody else needed him

Yes, the big boss above needed him

Music brought us close together

And mateship between us did flow

His aim was to hear me on record one day

Fate never intended it so

But he's listening up there now I know

I can picture the old homestead verandah

We'd yarn as the night rolled away

And the songs he would sing to his old violin

And here is the music he'd play

Yes, here is the music Dad played

When I give up my life as a rover

And I hang my guitars on the wall

Dad's old violin will be placed with them

To remind me what started it all

To remind me what started it all