Steven Fromholz: New and Selected Poems

Dear Darcy

-53Dear Darcy Dear Darcy, here’s a letter from a guitar, He told me I should sing his song for you And I should say it is from him; He’d like to tell you where he’s been. But Daddy says it better when he sings. Dear Darcy, how’s your mama? Are you happy? Can a guitar make a living where you are? Well, your daddy’s band and me, We’re just playing to be free. But I still miss you listening to my strings. Dear Darcy, can you see the wind blow by? Covered up with snow like lookin’ in a diamond’s eye. Dear Darcy, can you see the Northern lights? Dear Darcy, is it really mostly night? Are you all right? There’s a letter on the table from a guitar. To a little girl who’s gone four thousand miles, And when she opens it she’ll see There’s a postscript just from me With all the love a letter’s line can bring. It’ll say Dear Darcy Do you miss me like I miss you? Are you old enough to know the way I feel? Am I man enough to see, how much in you there is of me? And do you still believe your daddy’s real? Copyright © 1976 Prophecy Publishing/BUG Songwriter, Steven Fromholz (ASCAP) ...