I don't have much to say    Thought I'd call you up anyway    Just to try to show you the way    That I feel today    I miss you, baby       I sure am on the road    I don't need to say much more    Just the same old well - known stranger    That I was before    It seems like yesterday now       Daddy's all gone    Only half way home    He's holding on to the telephone    Saying please don't let the show go on       There's a bus every other hour    There's even the midnight train    But that don't leave me the power    To see your face again    It's not that simple       You see there's a room full    of smiling faces    There's a man standing by the door    Say it's time to change our places    And get down on the floor    Kill 'em, baby       Daddy's all gone    He's just half way home    He's holding on to the microphone    Singing please don't make the show go on