Kate Wolf - I Never Knew My Father

It was twenty-five years ago, when I began my life
The second child of a woman, who tried hard to raise us right
She married a man, when I was just a babe
Who treated me just like his own, even giving me his name
I never knew my father
I only knew his name
I never knew the way he moved
How he talked, or what he said
Now I’m grown and mama says,
"You’re like your daddy, just the same"
Sometimes I got to wondering, about this man I never knew
When I’d find myself into something, just the way he used to do
Heard stories all my life, of how he loved to sing
And how he would take apart and fix most anything
I never knew my father
I only knew his name
I never knew the way he moved
How he talked, or what he said
Now I’m grown and mama says,
"You’re like your daddy, just the same"
Now I can’t say that I don’t care, that he died before I was born
I get to asking why he did, and I’ll probably ask some more
My life’s been good, I can’t say that I’ve had it bad
But now I’m seeing years that my dad never had
I never knew my father
I only knew his name
I never knew the way he moved
How he talked, or what he said
Now I’m grown and mama says,
"You’re like your daddy, just the same"