Unwed Fathers

In an Appalachian Greyhound station            She sits there waiting in a family way            ’Goodbye brother Tell Mom I love her’          ’Tell all the others I’ll write someday’            From an teenage lover to an unwed mother                   kept undercovers like some bad dream            While unwed fathers they can’t be bothered          They run like water through a mountain stream            In a cold and grey town a nurse say’s ’Lay down’          ’This ain’t no playground and this ain’t home’            Someones children out having children            in a grey stone building all al-one            (Chorus)            Some where else bound Smokey Mountain Greyhound          She bows her head down humming lullabys            ’Your daddy never meant to hurt you ever’          ’he just don’t live here but you’ve got his eyes’            (Chorus)