Manhattan, Kansas | Susan Werner

🎵 Manhattan, Kansas | Susan Werner 🎵

Manhattan, Kansas - Written by Susan Werner
Recorded Live August 5, 2022
McGonigel's Mucky Duck  |  Home of the Livest Music in Texas™
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Lyrics: 
out where the prairie grass waves in the wind
and where the sunsets last forever
that's where i fell in love with him
did i see this coming - never

CHORUS:
manhattan, kansas
we all do what we gotta do
i did what i did
and i surely don't blame you
i simply needed
for things to turn out differently
manhattan, kansas, can you understand me

i was a college girl from out of state
he was a rancher from salina
when i told him i was three weeks late
he said, "i can't be a father..."

CHORUS

the longest sidewalk i will ever see
deputies on either side of me
people crying, praying rosaries
but all of that was many years ago
now i'm out in pennsylvania
i watch my lovely daughters as they grow
and i keep sunflowers on the table