Nanci Griffith - Daddy Said Lyrics

Oh, I used to wish I was a hard line taker

They'd say, six to one a half dozen'll break her

Till I fell in love with a young man who sang the blues

Oh, bless my daddy, he warned me well

He'd whisper in my ear, he said, "Now look out, gal

There's always a ne'er do well gonna call you the fool"

He said, "You'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line

You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin'

And it's a pity that you're lover died young

But you'll never get tired of livin' alone"

So, now I dream of the lover that I don't know

It's safer this way 'cuz I don't have to go

And he won't come so nobody goes away

Sometimes I wish for the warmth of his hand

Take a look in these eyes and understand

I'm just a little too old to be a-learnin' the rules of the game

He said, "You'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line

You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin'

And it's a pity that you're lover died young

But you'll never get tired of livin' alone"

Oh, maybe I could take him to Mexico

We'd kick our heels in the warm cloudy gulf

He'd sing a song about the weather in the Poconos

This lover that I don't know

Then two hearts would pound 'stead of one in the night

I'd learn to fish with my own line

Catch my dream and hope that line would hold

He said, "You'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line

You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin'

And it's a pity that you're lover died young

But you'll never get tired of livin' alone"

No, I never get tired of livin' alone

Sometimes my feet get cold when I'm livin' alone