Daddy Was An Engineer chords by
The Bluebells
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I remember it well,
I was feeling so blue
So I said to my dad,
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what's your boy gonna do?
Then he told me,
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he looked me straight in the eye
He said this world is a sham,
you have to do what you can
It's always spinning around,
it's always dragging us down
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You gotta work hard,
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and keep your head high
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It's up, and it's down
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But for once in your life
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you gotta let it go
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Oh, my daddy was an engineer
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He said, son, life can be so unfair
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Once in a while you'll disappear
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Oh, my daddy was an engineer
Instead of making some plans
He had to work with his hands
He said just moving around
Was only dragging him down
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He had to work hard
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Just to work it all out
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True, he had dreams
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But his plans and his schemes
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They always fell apart
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Oh, my daddy was an engineer
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He said, son, life can be so unfair
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Once anyone, you disappear
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Oh, my daddy was an engineer
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You gotta take life as it
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comes right to love
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Deep down you know that life
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can suck
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It's up and it's down,
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but for once in your life
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you gotta let it go
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Oh, my daddy was an engineer
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He said, son, life can be so unfair
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Once in a while you disappear
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Oh, my daddy was an engineer
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An engineer, an engineer, an engineer, an engineer, an engineer,
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an engineer, an engineer, an engineer, engineer
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My daddy was an engineer
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