Unwed Fathers

In an Appalachian Greyhound station

She sits there waiting in a family way

"Goodbye brother, tell Mom I love her

Tell all the others I'll write someday"

From a teenage lover to an unwed mother

Kept undercover like some bad dream

And unwed fathers, can't be bothered

They run like water in a mountain stream

In a cold and gray town

The nurse says lay down

This ain't no playground

And you ain't home

Someone's children are having children

In a cold gray building, all alone

From a teenage lover to an unwed mother

Kept undercover like some bad dream

And a teenage father, can't be bothered

They run like water in a mountain stream

On a somewhere-else-bound midnight Greyhound

She hangs her head down and hums a lullaby

Scared half crazy, she holds her baby

She says, "I think, maybe you got your daddy's eyes"

From a teenage lover to an unwed mother

Kept undercover like some bad dream

And unwed fathers, can't be bothered

They run like water in a mountain stream