Runaway Girl

[Verse 1: Dorothy Jo Owens Parton, Dorothy Jo Owens Parton & Dolly Parton]

My mother left my daddy, ran away with another man

It wasn't very long until my daddy married again

They had a little boy they called Jimmy, my half brother

They said he was just like my dad and I was like my mother

[Verse 2: Dorothy Jo Owens Parton, Dorothy Jo Owens Parton & Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton]

Now Jimmy's old enough to go school, he's so mean

He tells my daddy lies on me just to start a scene (Oh, ooh, woah)

My daddy beats me every day for one thing or another

And tells me every day I'm getting more and more like mother

[Verse 3: Dorothy Jo Owens Parton, Dorothy Jo Owens Parton & Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton]

One day at school, a boy asked me if he could carry my books

And before I could say yes, I know little Jimmy gave me a look

That told me I would get a beating whenever I got home

And so he ran ahead of me and left me with his boy alone (Alone)

[Verse 4: Dorothy Jo Owens Parton, Dorothy Jo Owens Parton & Dolly Parton]

My mind was running wild, I wondered how much could I take

When this boy I barely knew asked me for a date

I told him I'd do anything just to get away

So we made our plans for me to run away that day

[Verse 5: Dorothy Jo Owens Parton, Dorothy Jo Owens Parton & Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton]

Now I'm living in a dingy room in a dirty part of town (Oh, oh, oh, oh)

And this boy I barely know hardly ever comes around (Oh, oh, oh, oh)

But he pays my rent and buys my food and calls himself my lover

Daddy tells folks back home I ran away

Just like my mother

[Outro: Dorothy Jo Owens Parton, Dorothy Jo Owens Parton & Dolly Parton]

Oh, if I could only tell my father

I'd rather have the real, true love of a daddy and a mother