Fair Weather Father

You were there one month of the year,
 but the calendar is 12 months long.
 Mother did her very best,
 but she did it by herself
 cause you were gone.
 Every now and then you strolled in.
 When you did you
 tried to lay down the law.
 I guess you were a pretty good dad
 when you were there at all.
 Someone forgot
 to tell you raising kids
 is a full time job.
 Doors are hard to open
 when there is no one
 there to help you reach the knob.
 The holes of my life
 that you have missed
 are enough to sink a ship.
 A child is not a letter
 and a photograph
 held together by a paperclip.
 Fair weather father!
 Fair weather father!
 Fair weather father!
 Fair weather father!
 Getting older I can see
 how mistakes are easily made.
 But it doesn't change the fact
 that it's by the kids
 whom the price is paid.
 Fair weather father!
 Fair weather father!
 Fair weather father!
 Fair weather father!
 Never taught me to throw a football.
 Taught myself to ride a bike.
 Could have used some fatherly advice
 with the girls I have liked.
 Weren't there when I first drove a car.
 Weren't there when I finished school.
 Weren't there when I ran away
 or when I was abused.
 Well are you! (repeat)