A Face Like Mine - Peter Bradley Adams

I never knew my father

He left when I was young

They say he was a proud man

As good as they come

He left like all the others

When no work could be found

He smiled and told my mother

I won’t let you down

The autumn turned to winter

And the light left her eyes

No footsteps on the front porch

No word of him arrived

A promise torn to pieces

And tossed to the ground

Though at night she grieved him

She never made a sound

I know he had a reason

I know a man can get lost

Whatever he believed in

I know he suffered the cost

His picture’s almost faded

But I filled in the lines

And nothing’s unforgiven

So father don’t you cry

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Now the years have found me

With a child of my own

Another generation

That must carry the load

But somewhere there’s a memory

In the back of my mind

I see my father smiling

With a face like mine

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh