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Mother Tongue

from A Decent Man by Michael Weston King

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You and I speak the mother tongue
We don't know where, Daddy’s gone
Where he’s gone, or where he’s been
Or if we’ll see him again

He didn’t hate you, he just ignored you
I will describe his face for you
His face, for you, is ashen grey
Afraid of what you’ll say

Oh Daddy are you coming home?
Oh Daddy are you coming home?
Are you coming home?

He loved us once, he loves us now
You must hold onto this truth somehow
Sometimes it fades, and I can’t recall
The time he loved us all

And every time the phone rings,
there’s a chance he could be calling
To tell us that he’s sorry
and he was wrong for leaving
And I want so much to tell him
That we would all forgive him
if he just came home.......

Oh Daddy are you coming home?
Oh Daddy are you coming home?
Are you coming home?

I don’t have faith in this world
We are just another boy and girl
A boy and girl on a single spree
And it’s the mothers tongue we feel

Oh Daddy are you coming home?
Oh Daddy are you coming home?
Are you coming home?
Are you coming home?
Are you coming home?

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from A Decent Man, released April 10, 2020

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Michael Weston King Montgomery, UK

Former leader of Alt. Country pioneers, The Good Sons, 12 years a solo artist and currently 1/2 of award winning country soul duo My Darling Clementine.

"King has a voice part Nashville balladeer and part Alt Country hero, a cross between Nick Cave and Rodney Crowell"
- The Independent
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