Nanci Griffith - Dress Of Laces lyrics

(John Grimaudo - Saylor White) And she has a dress of laces It's worn in many places The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread And she has a need for ahrin' For someone warm and carin' And no one sees a heart that's underfed Chorus Young girl in love Young girl in tears She hasn't seen the man she loves in years And her mother is a waitress At the harbour bar, good graces Where the seamen come a fishin' with their lines And it was one of them that caught her And left her with a daughter Who lives with hate and loving him in mind Chorus So the young girl goes to the water And she calls out for her father But she ain't seen the old man in some time Yes, and he was always boastin' Just a drinkin' and a toastin' And one day he left his family behind Chorus So the mother comes home a drinkin' With a sailor who's a tinkin' out loud That he might stay with them awhile So she loads her mother's pistol And she shoots him as he whistles A song about a sailor's life in style Young girl in love Young girl in tears She k**s the only man she's loved in years And with him dies her hopes, her dreams, her fears Repeat First Verse And no one sees a heart that's underfed