transcribed by tom watson mrtom@bigfoot.com C5 Sonny lives on a farm , in the wide open space C5 F5 C5 you can kick off your sneekers, and give up the race G5 you can lay your self down, by a sweet river bed F5 C5 G5 sonny always remembers, what it was his moma said__________ chorus C5 sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone C5 F5 C5 and your daddy?s a sailor, and he never comes home G5 and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on F5 C5 G5 and I?m feeling so tired, I?m not all that strong_________ ------------------- C5 Sonny caries a load, He is barely a man C5 F5 C5 there?s not all that much to do, still he does the best he can G5 and he lives in a room , at the top of the stairs F5 C5 G5 and the sea keeps on rollin in it?s done that for years________ chorus C5 sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone C5 F5 C5 and your daddy?s a singer, and he never comes home G5 and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on F5 C5 G5 and I?m feeling so tired, I?m not all that strong_________ ------------------- instrumental D5 D5 G5 D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 D5 Towns a hundred miles away Sonny?s never been there D5 G5 D5 he just goes to the highway and he stands there and stares A5 and the mail comes at four and the mail man is old G5 D5 A5 yet he?s still dreaming dreams filled with silver and gold chorus D5 sonny don?t go away, I am here all alone D5 G5 D5 and your daddy?s a sailor, and he never comes home A5 and the nights get so long, and the silence goes on G5 D5 A5 and I?m feeling so tired, I?m not all that strong_________ D5 sonny don?t go away, sonny don?t go away