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She's on Her Own

from Lost and Found by Scott Nielsen

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She’s On Her Own
Lyrics and music by Scott Nielsen © 2002

Verse one
She was ten years old when her mama died
Daddy tried to raise her Lord knows he tried
But it was not the same
He wasn’t all to blame
When she left home running just seventeen
With the local trouble maker out chasing a dream
On the run
Back then it seemed like fun
A year later in Memphis, the trouble maker was gone
She was left with a baby a long way from home
And no place to go

Chorus 1
She’s on her own
Trying to make it alone
All the dreams and the plans came a tumbling down
She longed for the house in her old hometown
The little girl room where the secrets were kept
Dreams were dreamed and sometimes she wept
But it was home
Now she’s on her own

Verse two
Too hurt to cry, too tired to quit
Waiting tables at a diner on the midnight shift
While the baby stays with the lady next door
It’s a drafty little rental in a trailer park
A little cold in the winter not much of a start
And not the dream she held in her heart
With mixed up feelings of shame and pride
She writes to her daddy in the letters she lied
She said, “I’m doing fine”.

Chorus 2:
Here on my own
I’m going make it alone
But sometimes when things are getting’ her down
She longs for that house in her old hometown
The little girl room where the secrets were kept
Dreams were dreamed and sometimes she wept
But it was home
Now she’s on her own.
She’s on her own

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from Lost and Found, released July 6, 2018

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Scott Nielsen Bordentown, New Jersey

"I'm a 50's rocker and never was told how to grow up and when to grow old . . ." to quote one of my tunes and it sums me up pretty well. I have been writing songs since the early 60's. In the 70's I wrote children's songs for Captain Kangaroo. I have been a writer and publisher ASCAP member since 1973.

I write across several genres: country, rock and adult alternative. ... more

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