CowboySlim - Abandoned Fathers
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Abandoned Fathers

She packed her things and disappeared
Six years ago tonight.
I guess she left while I was workin'
Just to avoid the fight.
Now I can't really blame her
After all the things I did,
But when she left, she also took the kids.

Abandoned Fathers
Don't read no book reports.
Abandoned Fathers
Can't pay no child support.
Go ahead and leave me
If that's what you want to do...
But remember,
They're my kids too.

I wasn't there to hold her
Each time that things went wrong.
Bein' alone with those three kids
Made every day seem long.
I guess I wasn't quite the man
She pictured in her dreams.
I wonder if the kids know what that means.

Abandoned Fathers
Don't read no book reports.
Abandoned Fathers
Can't pay no child support.
Go ahead and leave me
If that's what you want to do...
But remember,
They're my kids too.

I'll bet Willie's playin' baseball
Or fishin' on a pond
And Sally's prob'ly dancin' round
With a "magic wand".
Kyle was only three years old
I wonder now what they've been told
My broken heart can't be consoled
By time...
'Cause they're still mine.

There'll never be a second time
To raise my family.
I'll never have another chance
To be what I could be.
The dad in me that she tore out
When she walked out of sight
Feels abandoned each and every night.

Abandoned Fathers
Don't read no book reports.
Abandoned Fathers
Can't pay no child support.
Go ahead and leave me
If that's what you want to do...
But remember,
They're my kids too.

2003 CowboySlim, BMI