Lyrics

Daysville
© Roger Day Bain 11/09/11 – 12/09/11 & 7/18-21/20 & 8/06/20 & 7/25/21 &8/8/23 & 9/21/23 & 9/23-25/23

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I was born on the Rock River floodplain
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Ran through cornfields when I was just a boy
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My Daddy came here from Scotland, you see
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To these farmlands of northern Illinois

And my mother she was from Daysville
Just across the field a little way
Her Grandad bought the land and gave it his name
His name was Colonel Jehiel Day

They gave me the same name, Jehiel
Jehiel Day Bain, that’s me
I’m not ashamed of my name but if it’s all just the same
You can call me Jay or JD

My daddy he was a farmer
Like most of the rest of his clan
But I wanted to be something different, you see
So I became a railroad man

Daysville
Daysville
I’m going to Daysville
Daysville
Daysville
Illinois

And I married Dana Whipple, just eighteen years-old
When I was thirty and three
We moved to the wsuburbs of Chicago you see
And planted our family tree

I had four kids with my Dana
All born near the sound of a train
The youngest was Roger, with my middle name of Day
And now his son too is Roger Day Bain…Jr. (it’s his song now)
I never did meet that grandson of mine
he was born years after I passed
But it won’t be long till he’s singing my song
Time goes by so fast

Daysville
Daysville
I’m going to Daysville
Daysville
Daysville
Illinois

Jehiel Day Bain was my grandfather’s name
I was born years after he passed
But it won’t be long till I’m singing his song
Time goes by so fast

Yes, I have been to Daysville
There’s not much left there to see
Just a graveyard full of my long-gone kin
Lying there waitin’ for me

Daysville
Daysville
I’m going to Daysville
Daysville
Daysville
I’m going to Daysville
Illinois