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Wings of an Airplane

from Plans Gang Aft Agley by Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus

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A song about absent fathers. A daughter waits at an airport bar for the father who walked out on her life years before.

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Wings Of An Airplane

On the wings of an airplane
He’s coming back home
She waits at the airport
In the bar, all alone
She’s waiting for someone
That she don’t even know
The only man that she ever loved
Is coming back home

On the wings of an airplane
He moved to the coast
She used to call him at Christmas
When it hurt her the most
She once was his daughter
She became like a ghost
The only man that she ever loved
Disappeared, just like smoke

He used to fight with her mother
Over money and love
Then he walked out forever
Said: “It hurts too damn much”
He walked out on his old life
And the seeds that he’d sown
On the wings of an airplane
He’s coming back home

On the wings of an airplane
He’s coming her way
He called her last Thursday
Hoping it was ok
Now she’s drinking tequila
She’s got nothing to say
The only man that she ever loved
Is coming too late

© words and music by Jim Patton (Independent Alligator Publishing Co) (ASCAP)

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from Plans Gang Aft Agley, released May 1, 2008

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Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus Austin, Texas

Austin folk rock songwriters Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus return with their 7th CD on Houston's Berkalin Records. This time they're leaning toward the rock side of their folk-rock equation with a sound more comparable to Tom Petty or the Byrds.

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