My father always promised me 我父亲一直答应给我

That we would live in France 我们会住在法国

We'd go boating on the Seine 我们会去泛舟塞纳河

And I would learn to dance 我想学跳舞

   

We lived in Ohio then 我们住在俄亥俄州的话

He worked in the mines 他曾在矿场

On his dreams like boats 在他的梦想就像船

We knew we would sail in time 我们知道，我们会在航行时

   

All my sisters soon were gone 我所有的姐妹们很快都不见了

To Denver and Cheyenne 丹佛和塞恩

Marrying their grownup dreams 嫁给​​他们的大人的梦想

The lilacs and the man 紫丁香和人

   

I stayed behind the youngest still 我住后面的年轻依旧

Only danced alone 只有独自跳舞

The colors of my father's dreams 我父亲的梦想的颜色

Faded without a sound 褪悄无声息

   

And I live in Paris now 我住在巴黎，现在

My children dance and dream 我的孩子们跳舞的梦想

Hearing the ways of a miner's life 听到一个矿工的生命之道

In words they've never seen 在话，他们从来没有见过

   

I sail my memories of home 我会驾船出航我的记忆中的家

Like boats across the Seine 像横跨塞纳河船

And watch the Paris sun 看着巴黎的阳光

As it sets in my father's eyes again 因为它套在我父亲的眼睛再次

   

My father always promised us 我父亲一直向我们承诺

That we would live in France 我们会住在法国

We'd go boating on the Seine 我们会去泛舟塞纳河

And I would learn to dance 我想学跳舞

   

I sail my memories of home 我会驾船出航我的记忆中的家

Like boats across the Seine 像横跨塞纳河船

And watch the Paris sun 看着巴黎的阳光

As it sets in my father's eyes again 因为它套在我父亲的眼睛再次