Unwed Fathers

In an Appalachian greyhound station

She sat there waitin' in a family way

Goodbye brother tell mom I love her

Tell all the others I'll write someday

From a teenage lover to unwed mother

Kept under cover like some bad dream

But unwed fathers can't be bothered

They run like water to a mountain stream

In a cold and grey town a nurse says lay down

This ain't no playground and this ain't home

Someone's children havin' children

In a cold grey building all alone

From a teenage lover to unwed mother

Kept under cover like some bad dream

But unwed fathers can't be bothered

They run like water to a mountain stream

On a somewhere else bound nighttime greyhound

She bows her head down and lullaby

Scared and crazy she holds her baby

Says I think maybe you got your daddy's eyes

From a teenage lover to unwed mother

Kept under cover like some bad dream

But unwed fathers can't be bothered

They run like water to a mountain stream

They run like water to a mountain stream