In an Appalachian
Greyhound station
She sits there waiting
In a family way
Goodbye brother
Tell Mom I love her
Tell all the others
I'll write someday
From an teenage lover
To an unwed mother
Kept undercover
Like some bad dream
While unwed fathers
They can't be bothered
And they run like water
Through a mountain stream
In a cold and gray town
A nurse say's "Lay down"
'This ain't no playground
And this ain't home'
Someone's children
Having children
In an old gray buildingand all alone
From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother
Kept undercover, like some bad dream
While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered
And they run like water, through a mountain stream
On somewhere else bound, Mountain Greyhound
She holds her head down, singing lullabies
Scared and crazy, she holds her baby
And says that he made it, you got your daddys eye
From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother
Kept undercover, like some bad dream
While unwed fathers, they can't be bothered
And they run like water, through a mountain stream
And they run like water
Through a mountain stream