Key: C major
Verse 1
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Daddy was a skywriter
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Momma was a rock- stemmed rose
Papa shaped this place with
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grease and grace
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shows
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Tried and true as the color of his collar
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His eyes grew bluer as he
But words are crumbs and
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the lesson of a father
Hopefully they're right about
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the pen being mightier
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That any weapon anyone'll wield
But where they mark off men
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with the cross of a pen
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Daddy was a
skywriter...
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She
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said build
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your house on the solid rock of Jesus
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Fool to choose the sand of sin
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I run out and sign myself a long lease
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On a little place made of rain and wind
But she learned me pretty good about
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the CouldaWouldaShoulda
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And the cripplin weight of a crutch
She wasn't dead on
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about every little thing
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Am
wrong about much
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Daddy was
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a skywriter
Outro 1
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