My Daddy and Me - Tom Paxton

My daddy and me

We ran to the rainbow

My daddy and me

We flew where the clouds blow

Down by the shore

We ran till we couldn’t run any more

Down by the sea

My daddy and me

My daddy and me

Went down to the rodeo

I knew I could win

My daddy told me so

I rode like the wind

I brought that ribbon home to him

Oh, what a jamboree

For daddy and me

Daddy got mad sometimes

But you know that’s how daddies are

He threw his hat at the fencepost

But it never went that far

And I got scared and teary-eyed

But all that I could see

Was daddy and me

My daddy and me

Went down to the railroad

We sat on the hill

Just about where the train slowed

The engineer was my friend

Blew his whistle, stood my hair on end

If you’d have been there you could see

Like daddy and me

My daddy went home

Where I couldn’t follow

He left in the night

And flew like a swallow

And now that I’m grown

I still don’t feel like I’m alone

We’re limbs on the same old tree

My daddy and me

Daddy got mad sometimes

But you know that’s how daddies are

He threw his hat at the fencepost

But it never went that far

And I got scared and teary-eyed

But all that I could see

Was daddy and me

Now my daddy and me

We ran to the rainbow

My daddy and me

We flew where the clouds blow

Down by the shore

We ran till we couldn’t run any more

Down by the sea

My daddy and me

Down by the sea

My daddy and me