--as tho my daughter wrote this--
Lyrics
The Man I Never Knew
© Mae Tennisco 1995
1.) I knew he was alone out there somewhere,
The Man I Never Knew.
He'd be handsome and wealthy
and make my dreams come true.
Someday he'd come and take me
to live in his fabulous world.
Better than Momma provided
since I was a little girl.
Chorus
The Man I Never Knew,
whose blood runs through my veins.
I never knew my Daddy,
but I'd be with him one day.
2.) Momma seldom talked about Daddy:
thought it would shatter young dreams.
I found I couldn't forgive her
for taking me away from him.
Just fourteen when she told me
but not one word could be true.
He'd come and take me with him:
The Man I Never Knew
Chorus
The Man I Never Knew,
whose blood runs through my veins.
I never knew my Daddy,
but I'd be with him one day.
3.) Too quickly the years have passed by me.
Momma's gone and I'm now grown.
My knight in shining armour
had never made himself known.
Here I stand at his grave side,
marked with a cold slab of stone.
He lived by the bottle, died by his hand,
penniless and all alone.
CHORUS (changes)
The Man I Never Knew,
whose blood runs through my veins.
I pray his soul's in Heaven
and I'll fin'lly meet him one day (retard a cappella)
