A fighting man with a ready hand if he said it so it was no compromise no fuss just eighteen with a baby carriage two hot heads in a teenage marriage

Daddy told me not to fall in love keep an eye on the books you’re going to school not a fashion show daddy told me not to fall in love keep an eye on the crooks don’t let em play you like piano

In the middle of the century with the pain of a brother in eternity why does he think so little of me to let me know so little of him

Daddy told me not to fall in love keep an eye on the books you're going to school not a fashion show daddy told me not to fall in love keep an eye on the crooks don’t let em play you like piano

I’m sorry I didn’t mean to steal your pants I keep forgetting to deliver them into your hands

Truthfully last week I decided to keep them they remind me of you I know someday I will carry you in my own two in my own two arms do you know how how I

Cherish you do you know what you mean

Daddy told me not to fall in love I’m afraid of the world without you I’m afraid of the world

Without you I’m afraid of the world without you