Papa Danced On Olvera Street letra

Across the way from Union Station
is our family's favorite stand
You can take a seat and
eat and drink,
hear the mariachi bands
L.A.'s oldest road is a market place
run by charming and kind latinos
You'll ignore faint scents of sewage
once you've tasted them taquitos

There was that day the world
seemed brighter,
the hot green sauce a little hotter
(You know you've got
a good batch
when your eyes begin to water)
And I believe God laughed
along with our
surprise at happy feet
Papa stood straight up
and did a little dance
there on old Olvera Street

Couldn't help himself
'cos the day was warm
and the company was sweet
and strangers laughed too
at the sight that
made our day complete
With his family gathered
on Father's Day,
his love ran wide and deep
and Papa said so
with his little dance down on old Olvera Street

Above us loomed Avila Adobe,
oldest house in Los Angeles
Did I really see that second sight
that nearly brought me
to my knees?
Encarnacion Abela,
Francisco The Rancher's
grieving widow
watchin Papa dance
(I swear her sad ghost smiled there
in the upper story window)

She couldn't help herself
'cos the day was warm
and the sight was oh so sweet
The crowd laughed too
at that joyous soul
who made our day complete
With his family gathered
on Father's Day
dad's love ran wide and deep
and he said so with his little dance
down on old Olvera Street

In a world that wounds us
time to time
that glimpse of grace
was so sublime
and though the Angels now live
in Anaheim,
they flew in just for a peak
at that miracle
of a fandago
down on old Olvera Street

Amd jeavem knows I love that man
he's more than half of who I am
It's the thing I'm beginning
to understand
I wish my heart had moved my feet
and I had joined my Daddy
when he danced that day
down on old Olvera Street

Terry Scott Taylor - Letras

• (Out of) The Wild Wood
• A Briefing For The Ascent
• All Day Sing And Dinner On The Ground
• All The Very Best Things
• Angels Must Smile Like That
• Beep Bop Bo Shards
• Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
• Big Shot & Miniature Girl
• Boomtown
• Built her Cloud
• Capistrano Beach
• Capture Me
• Castle De Los Muertos (The Plate Ees Hot!)
• Changeless
• Chicken Crosses The Road
• Cough Drops
• Cowboys With Engines
• Dancing On Light
• Dum Da Dum Doi Doi
• Elevated Structure of Terror
• Ever After
• Every Tuesday Of The Week
• Everybody Way Oh!
• Glorious Dregs
• Going Home
• Good Bread, Good Meat, Good God, Let's Eat
• Happy Campers
• Here He Comes Second Time
• Hey John Wayne
• Holy Emmanuel
• Homina Homina
• I Like it Like that
• I'll Stop Loving you
• In the Meantime
• Into the Deep
• Kind Word
• Klogg Is Dead!
• Lift Up Your Hearts: Sursum Corda
• Light Princess
• Little, Big
• Long, Long, Long
• Lovely Lilly Lou
• Lowdee Huh
• Mamas in the Desert, Daddy's in the Sky
• Molly is a Metaphor
• Monk Rushmore (Presidential Funky Monkey)
• Mr. Flutter
• Musical Fruit
• My Love, My Love
• Oh Sweet Companion
• Olley Olley Oxen Free
• Olley Oxen Free
• One More Time
• Operator Plays a Little PingPong
• Papa Danced On Olvera Street
• Picture of You
• Pie Hole
• Potatoes, Tomatoes, Gravy and Peas
• Pretend I'm Elvis (For Just One Night)
• Psychedelic Boogie Child
• Real Men Cry
• River of Sorrow
• Rob's and Carolee's
• Simple Things
• Song of Innocence
• Sour Head Hauksa Loukee
• Startin' Monday
• Ten Gallon Hat
• The Afternoon
• The Incredible Divy Run
• The Lil' Bonus Room
• The Neverhood Theme
• The Wood Between the Worlds
• Too Many Angels
• Waiting
• Welcome To The Real World
• Where Dreams Come True
• With the Tired Eyes of Faith
• With What I Should Have Said
• Writer's Block
• You Lay Down
• You Told Them Exactly What I Didn't Say
• Your Thief