All the Way to Amsterdam

She dreams about it every night
 She knows just how it's going to be
 Flying down canals of ice
 On skates of bright and shining steel
 She keeps the book beneath her bed
 A flashlight there and know-one knows
 Looks at pictures from the Netherlands
 Children skating thru the falling snow
 Then the morning comes and like a beating drum
 Her father pounds upon the door
 Her brother cries outside
 Her mother 's petrified
 So drunk he stumbles to the floor
 The sunburn is like a welding torch
 Can't escape it on the Texas plain
 The old man stands there on the porche
 Tells her never look at me that way
 The world will quiet down
 She feel save and sound
 Alone and curled up in her room
 All to the winterland
 Fast line and book in hand
 Where her reality resumed
 She dreams about it every night
 She sets her sites and makes her plan
 One days she lace her skates uptight
 And skate all the way to Amsterdam
 One days she lace her skates uptight
 And skate all the way to Amsterdam
 Skate all the way to Amsterdam
 She skate all the way to Amsterdam