lyrics
Broken Man's Pride
August 1, 1991
I woke up from a long dream, baby
Can't shake it out of my head
I saw a beautiful house in a meadow
And a hay-barn painted red
But lately we ain't happy honey Livin' in this beat-up shack The crops are dying and we're so far from home And we ain't ever going back
Me and Kelly, we met in high school Danced every dance that night We both had problems with our families And we just couldn't make 'em work out right
So we fled to the windy city And got a place of our own It ain't much and we don't have money But we'll never go back home
You can never go back home again Now honey don't you cry It's just the fate of a broken man's pride
It was during the harvest moon Back in 1962 When Larry joined the army He felt it was the only thing to do
Well he was wounded in Vietnam And came home in '71 Stepped off the plane and no one was waitin' He said, "Ma what have I done?"
You can never go back home again Now mister, don't you try It's just the fate of a broken man's pride
But lately we ain't happy honey Livin' in this beat-up shack The crops are dying and we're so far from home And we ain't ever going back
Me and Kelly, we met in high school Danced every dance that night We both had problems with our families And we just couldn't make 'em work out right
So we fled to the windy city And got a place of our own It ain't much and we don't have money But we'll never go back home
You can never go back home again Now honey don't you cry It's just the fate of a broken man's pride
It was during the harvest moon Back in 1962 When Larry joined the army He felt it was the only thing to do
Well he was wounded in Vietnam And came home in '71 Stepped off the plane and no one was waitin' He said, "Ma what have I done?"
You can never go back home again Now mister, don't you try It's just the fate of a broken man's pride
© j. Wilford, 8/91