This song is about a man who had everything but wound up being a drunk living on the street.
I am just a city girl gone country
Story behind the song
I don't really know where this song came from It is a song about an old drunk and how he became one.
Lyrics
Old Man's Dream
Whiskey dripping down the old mans chin
Drifts off to sleep and dreams of where he's been
and about the way things used to be
when he still had a home and a family
In his dream he can still see his wife
standing there waiting as he pulls in the drive
and his children come running out to say
Hey there Daddy we sure missed you today
He was a lawyer and a kind upstanding man
seemed to have it all right there in the palm of his hand
now he's lost in a world somewhere in between
the whiskey the memories and an old man's dream
He's just an old drunk that lives on the street
begging the loose change from the people he meets
never thought his life would turn out quite this way
till the night a drunk driver took his family away
Now when ever he gets the chance to sleep
he prays to the Lord for his soul to keep
Hoping to die before he wakes
To meet with his family if its not too late
He was a lawyer and a kind upstanding man
seemed to have it all right there in the palm of his hand
now he's lost in a world somewhere in between
the whiskey the memories and an old man's dream
Whiskey and the memories and an old man's dream
