The Mail Pouch Sign
I love you
the mail pouch sign is wearing off the old gray barn
and the dog is playing with the cats ball of yarn
the bird feeder is feeding nothing but the squirrels
and sleeping in her crib is the light of my world
wood-smoke is rising from the cabin in the glen
the husky is howling with the cool late autumn wind
how many times I didn't get it right
but you're always in my heart, a ray of shining light
daddy couldn't love you more
young and full of vigor, tired old and sore
just be as you are, and that's alright with me
because daddy couldn't love you more
planting time is here, there are fields to be sown
winter's come and gone, can't believe how you've grown
you wore that pretty recital dress, seems like just the other day
too small now, folded it away
tit mice are nesting on top of the flue
keeping me awake so I'm thinking about you
so I roll out of bed in the middle of the night
just to watch you sleep in the gold moonlight
sitting on the porch, it's the breaking of the dawn
thinking about my mom and dad, its been years since they've been gone
the sunlight wakes the heron's, makes shadow's out of corn
does an old man good to see a new day being born
we all travel a path, leads up a mountainside
sometimes it's rough and rocky, sometimes it's smooth and wide
so many things change but some things never do
a man's need for redemption, and your daddy's love for you
written and arranged by t. mowatt