My Idaho Home

Mama and Daddy raised me with lovin' care They sacrificed, so I could have a better share They fed me and nursed me and sent me to school Mama taught me how to sing, Daddy lived the Golden Rule When I think of the children alone and afraid Abandoned and wild like a fatherless child I think of my mama and how she could sing Harmony with my daddy, our laughter would ring Down the highways, on the beaches Just as far as memory reaches I still hear Daddy singin' his old Army songs We'd laugh and count horses as we drove along We were young then, we were together We could bear floods and fire and bad weather And now that I'm older, grown up on my own I still love Mama and Daddy best and my Idaho home She was tender and sweet The dust and tornadoes blew 'round her But they left her straight up on her feet My daddy grew up on his own, more or less His mama died when he was just eleven He had seven sisters to raise him But he dreamed of his mama in heaven His daddy drank whiskey and had a sharp eye He sold chicken medicine farmers would buy Together they hunted the fields and the farms When his daddy died, my daddy rested in my mama's arms Down the highways, on the beaches Just as far as memory reaches I still hear Daddy singin' his old Army songs We'd laugh and count horses as we drove along We were young then, we were together We could bear floods and fire and bad weather And now that I'm older, grown up on my own I still love Mama and Daddy best and my Idaho home