Nina Simone - My Father Lyrics






My father always promised me
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

We lived in Ohio then
He worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats
We knew we would sail in time

All my sisters soon were gone
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
The lilacs and the man

I stayed behind the youngest still
Only danced alone
The colors of my father's dreams
Faded without a sound

And I live in Paris now
My children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner's life
In words they've never seen

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father's eyes again

My father always promised us
That we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine
And I would learn to dance

I sail my memories of home
Like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun
As it sets in my father's eyes again





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  1. L.... S....

    Stupenda immensa Nina rip

  2. M.... S....

    Wow nina simone voice is truly amazing

  3. G.... B....

    Immensa

  4. B.... 7....

    wow...such beauty

  5. i.... ....

    I am crying... Nina was a treasure.

  6. D.... D....

    Beautiful song, beautifully sung.

  7. j.... w....

    Nick cave brought me here. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

  8. B.... D....

    One of the ten love songs choose by Nick Cave

    B.... D....

    Blanca Domenech I went to a “Conversations with Nick Cave” last night and he mentioned this song specifically as a song that was too beautiful to listen to. He might be right.

  9. P.... G....

    Καθηλωτική.

  10. T.... P....

    Everything I listen to this is like a copy of my life losing my dad in June only the mercy of God it's not a day that goes by that I don't think about him

    T.... P....

    Everytime

  11. L.... R....

    Juste.pour.toi.papa....tu.me.manque.laurence

  12. C.... G....

    I shall I remember hearing this song several times this month will be the 15-year of my father's death he was in critical care the day that he died I look down at his hands for the first time I saw her my hands in my father's hands and my grandfather's hands also my father was a very strong man he worked very hard for his wife and his children that was his way of showing love Five for Fighting for his family he always told me in life that you must work hard for what you want no one will give it to you to this day I think of what he said about working hard and I do so I went to Paris several times and every time that I go to Paris I think of my father because I told him I would go to Paris and I shall go back I hope one day that I will go back and live there I love the city it's Joy is beauty I like the lights the quietness Madison River I hope one day I will do this cuz I will never give up my dream to go back there to live forever I think of my father this October in the person that he was a strong human being that loves his children and that blood that runs through him runs through me I will always love my father and also I will always love my grandfather he loves me so much and I will always Embrace these two men if they're in my soul when the raindrops I think of it going to a ocean and this is what I feel the quietness of the rain when it touches my body and it becomes more water a console and I think of that when I think of these two people the quietness of their soul thank you for being who you were Daddy and thank you my grandfather for being who you were you could fix anything but Daddy couldn't you build houses and you build our basement you so we can have a play room to play and you did this time I thank you for doing that you're a good person I shall remember you all my life dad are you up and having with my grandfather I hope that you Embrace him and say hello for me I sure miss you until that day I see you again I love you both I shall never forget what you said you all people your people of many blogs never forget who they are my grandmother used to say that also your many blocked that runs through you your Native American your Dodge your block is FANUC never forget who you are because how can I you make sure I knew that thank you for doing that also

  13. C.... G....

    I love this song because it reminds me so much of my father my father love Nina Simone when he was dying and critical care I paid a lot of Nina Simone for him he thought of me to Simone as a strong route to the tree she lived her life to the fullest that day when I play the music I touch my dad's hand I saw that his hands were mine I was the first time in my life that I ever talk to my father and I saw that I was also a part of his life by his hands my father was a very great man he works so many jobs to keep the family at a place where they should be this I remember him he was up how old man and he did everything that was true and he lived his life to the fullest like Nina Simone she lived it to the fullest and I guess I went to Paris as I told my father I would do I went to Germany I saw the world I told him I would do so I live what I wanted to do just like Nina one day I hope to go back to Paris and it's my favorite place to live

  14. C.... G....

    This song brought back so many memories of my father and my grandfather my father I never talked to him until the day that he died when I was giving cleaning him up I touched his hands and I look down at them and I saw my hands that look just like his and my grandfather the man I never thought to love me so when it's dying day he asked me to come there and that's when I felt his heartbeat and I knew that I was a part of his life and I will never forget both of these men because my heart beats with theirs every moment every second and I look at my hands and I see there's thank you for the most wonderful song a song that brings the heartbeat through the skin

  15. S.... M....

    Life is music loving each is life ,let’s all get together as one

  16. A.... A....

    Me encanta esta musica 😢👏✌ me hace acordar de mi papá, de las promesas de las cosas que no pudimos hacer juntos....

  17. A.... C....

    This is one of my all-time Nina Simone songs, along with so many: Wild is the Wind, I Put A Spell On You, Strange Fruit, Baltimore... Her voice is from another realm. Watch the beautiful documentary about her on Netflix.

  18. K.... K....

    Happy Birthday 🎁

  19. M.... ....

    superbe composition .........

  20. C.... A....

    My daddy shot himself 5 or 6 or 1000 yrs ago and I have not "bounced back" I have not "got over it" I miss him every damn day.I mean I deal but he is always there.

    C.... A....

    Christy Ann i am sorry for your great loss. Truly Sorry. I give you a wee poem of mine that turned into a Little Prayer!
    Spirit Of Glow
    Oh Spirit of Glow
    Come visit this Night
    While i sleep on a
    Carpet of Snow.
    Take a Sleighride to my
    Dream Chamber,
    Though blocked by
    Walls of Woe!
    Chisel me Free with
    Heat inflamed,
    Shoot Arrow Spears Aglow!
    Then, cradle me in
    Gold Winged Feathers and rock me, to and fro.
    Awake me with your
    Warm Embrace while you
    Burn my lips of blue.
    Shake icicles from darkened lashes and
    Scorch my Heart anew.
    Oh Spirit of Glow
    Come, Kiss the Snow!
    And, Melt this little
    Eskimo.
    by roberta tuck
    sent to Christy Ann with
    Love.

  21. P.... I....

    " I live in Paris now " and then the ascending strings. OMG...

  22. r.... ....

    SOOOO beautiful

  23. R.... J....

    Nina's voice is one of the miracles of the 20th century.

    R.... J....

    Rob Joyce Indeed💧

  24. G.... G....

    This a beautiful song... Nina is wonderful! I crying! Great!

  25. J.... D....

    Spellbinding song!  love it...

  26. g.... ....

    great song and violin playing, I love it!,

  27. z.... b....

    that...not mad?

  28. z.... b....

    this is the song that some women would wish to sing,hum,remember they're fathers , but never get to do. Nina got it.

  29. P.... N....

    Lovely song!

  30. S.... S....

    Wonderful... just wonderful.

  31. S.... ....

    The daddy I've ever known. I pray for him. I love you daddy aka my pops is my ace. Know that....

  32. J.... C....

    My Father is one of my favorite songs, Please listen to my version.

  33. J.... D....

    Love it!! just spellbinding.. this song is magic..

  34. S.... ....

    I LOVE MY DAD...MY FATHER. MY NUMBER ONE EARTHLY GUY. GOD YOU HEAR ME?

  35. R.... R....

    My favourite version of this wonderful beautiful song!...She brings a sensitivity and vulnerability to those magical lyrics....love the album Baltimore as well!!

  36. J.... L....

    There is no color barrier when music is the catalyst. It's blurred edges. Judy Collins version is the best and she composed it -- yet, listening to Nina Simone's sincere version here -- it retells the story of the lyric and it too becomes definitive. I love them both. That's the magic of music. Interpretation is everything. If you can relate to it. If it matters to you somehow. Nina found something important in this song and she sang it. And it worked.

  37. J.... D....

    She had a very hard time doing this song, she loved the melody but she felt the lyrics didn't pertain to her life. I think in the end she did a wonderful job on it.

    J.... D....

    Jordan Durell Check out my comment on this song...

    J.... D....

    Nina...wants to create a different version here, but instead of laughing...she wants to cry because she knows there is no lighthearted side to this one...for her. She was PURE and honest from her soul.
    THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS VERSION. Though short; it speaks volumes from her true memory ... of HER Father. Eunice and Her Father's... heart -- broken bond. That's probably why she couldn't finish it...If she was singing it...after the fact:
    Alone Again Naturally
    Papa Can You Hear me
    and of course:
    * https://youtu.be/SSwnyLxzyRY
    *This Beeauutifull, Sweet version 👆 is a true dedication to Father Waymon.

    J.... D....

    Judy Collins wrote this song. It was on her 1968 album Who Knows Where The Time Goes.

  38. F.... P....

    Gorgeous song, perfectly performed. Thanks for posting.

  39. B.... ....

    as with all her songs, Just Splendid

  40. I.... ....

    @chrishoyboo Sadly Nina Simone is no loger with us. I believe she was only 70.

  41. C.... C....

    A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO AND SONG! Asante Sana for Sharing!

  42. �.... �....

    thank you!

  43. c.... ....

    beautifully done somos-you do her justice.

  44. C.... H....

    WOW! This bring tears to my eyes. She's amazing, the piano is just breath taking. So in love with this and video. I can't wait to meet her one day.

  45. �.... �....

    thank you;-)

  46. K.... G....

    Epic and amazing, I am sure Nina herself would love the beautiful video you have put together to compliment her artistry and soul strumming sound.
    Just Beautiful.
    Thank you :)

  47. d.... a....

    awesome song awesome video

  48. B.... B....

    Interesting, this song has haunted me as well.
    billb

  49. �.... �....

    thank you for the nice comment;-)

  50. D.... ....

    Just beautiful, you have done a great job with the video. This song has haunted me for years. Thank-you

  51. G.... N....

    Λατρεμένη φωνή και παρουσία! Κρίμα που έπαψε να μας αφυπνίζει. Υπέροχο τραγούδι!

  52. �.... �....

    thank you very much!!!!

  53. R.... H....

    I always love this song sung by the legend Simon, but what an amazing video you made out of the song............I was very touched by your wonderful work.
    Thanks for doing a incredible art piece, for my generation and the younger come to know real music.

  54. �.... �....

    χαχαχαχαχαχαχαχα!!!!

  55. p.... ....

    υπεροχο...υπεροχο...

  56. �.... �....

    σ' ευχαριστώ, να'σαι καλά!

  57. �.... �....

    ανατριχιάζω και μόνο ακούγοντας τη φωνή της....
    γιά τις εικόνες δεν υπάρχουν λόγια,υπέροχες!

  58. �.... �....

    Καλό Μήνα Λατρεία μου!!!!
    ( μετά από αυτό θα μπερδευτεί κόσμος, στο λέω;-)))))

  59. M.... ....

    ΚΑΤΑΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΟ!!!
    Καλό μας μήνα, αγαπημένε μου! :-)))))

  60. �.... �....

    γειά σου ρε ΓΚαρντασίνα,θενκς;-)

  61. �.... �....

    σ' ευχαριστώ πολύ, επίσης!

  62. �.... �....

    σ'ευχαριστώ Μηνά;-)

  63. �.... �....

    να'σαι καλά, ευχαριστώ!

  64. N.... B....

    Υπέροχο..*****
    μπράβο Δημήτρη !

  65. M.... L....

    Πολύ όμορφο Δημήτρη! Ευχαριστούμε πολύ.

  66. n.... x....

    kalo apogeyma panemorfo binteo********

  67. �.... �....

    σ' ευχαριστώ πολύ!

  68. �.... �....

    καλώς την!!!!

  69. �.... �....

    ;-)
    γειά σου Ελένη, σ' ευχαριστώ!

  70. �.... ....

    φανταστικο!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Μπραβο Δημητρη!!!!!!!!

  71. �.... �....

    ;-)thanks Deniz!

  72. �.... �....

    na'sai kala Popi mas;-)))

  73. �.... �....

    s' eyxaristo poly!

  74. p.... v....

    polu kalo...!!! mprabo file mou******1000

  75. m.... ....

    para polu wraiooooo!!!!

  76. �.... �....

    thank you very much!

  77. �.... �....

    grazie a te Carlo;-)