I Never Knew My Father

Intro: 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" Instrumental: