Toni’s a Traveler

 

Toni’s a traveler come down from Canada, left all her best clothes back home

She’s here for the dollar, never mind the long hours

Or the heartache she’ll nurse all alone

 

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

 

She’s a modern-day Nightingale, stethoscope on the trail, hired health pays pretty well

So she’s down here in Texas healing Mexican immigrants

Hurting for a dollar themselves

 

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

And she wants to go home

 

Back to her Canada

To her family and her friends

Back to where she came from

And a boy whom she loves

 

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

And she wants to go home

 

There’s a boy back in Montreal she rushes home to call, day after desperate day

And you can tell in her eyes when she tells him goodbye

She hates earning their living this way

 

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

And she wants to go home

 

So she’s going home tonight

She caught the 8:05 flight

She waved goodbye to me

To be with her child

If only for awhile ‘cause

 

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

Toni’s a traveler (She wants to go home)

And she wants to go home

 

© 1993. Billy Marabella.