Daddy Lived In Houston chords by Johnny Bush

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Verse 1
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 (G major) By 5 a .m. I  (C major) was in the woods
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with  (D major) an old tow  (G major) sack
By 6 o 'clock
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I'd  (C major) made my trip
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to  (D major) the rabbit traps and  (G major) back
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My seven mama had  (C major) them dressed
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and crying  (D major) in the  (G major) pad
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When daddy lived in  (C major) Houston
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and  (D major) we lived off the  (G major) land
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They said that down in  (C major) Houston
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worker (D major) s  were hard to  (G major) find
That a man couldn't make
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his  (C major) fortune there
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while  (D major) we just scraped for  (G major) dimes
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The money was just wait (C major) ing there
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for those  (D major) with skillful  (G major) hands
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So Daddy moved to  (C major) Houston
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and  (D major) we lived off the  (G major) land  (E flat major) 
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 (F minor) They  (E flat major)  (A flat major) say  they built the  (D flat major) biggest ship
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that  (E flat major) ever sailed the  (A flat major) sea
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But not all Daddy's  (D flat major) money
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came back  (E flat major) to Mom and  (A flat major) me
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We didn't know the  (D flat major) reason,
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but we  (E flat major) tried to understand
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 (A flat major) When Daddy lived in  (D flat major) Houston
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and  (E flat major) we   lived off the  (A flat major) land  (E major) 
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 (F sharp minor) An     (E major) d  (A major) when the war was  (D major) over,
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Dad  (E major) never made it  (A major) home
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And I think mama knew  (D major) 
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he wouldn't come  (E major) back all alone  (A major) 
It took a while
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but now  (D major) I know it  (E major) never was his  (A major) plan
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When daddy left in  (D major) Houston
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and  (E major) we lived off the  (A major) land
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When Daddy lived in  (D major) Houston
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and  (E major) we lived off the  (A major) land