Key: Db major
Verse 1
when I go to my work,
Overcoat buttoned up
around my neck,
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oh, well, no job would I share.
around my head,
cutting up in my face,
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I'll tell you what I'd like to have,
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my dear old father's praise.
and he lays around all day,
with his feet in front of the fire,
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smoking his pipe of clay.
so does sister Ann.
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but my old man
At feeding carpets,
father said,
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he simply was a man.
We took our polar carpet out,
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we hung it on the fence.
with all your mighty mane.
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But father, he just feed it back
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to the fireside again.
he lays around all day,
with his feet in front of the fire,
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smoking his pipe of clay.
so does sister Ann.
Everybody works around our house
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but my old man.
Everybody works but the father
and he's going to work next week.
For he bought him a pick and a shovel,
so has Sister Ann.
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but my old man
Feeding carpets,
father said
he simply was a man
We took our father's carpet out
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And others said,
now feed his deer
with all your might and vain
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But father he just feeds back
he lays around all day
With his feet in front of the fire,
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smoking his pipe of clay
so does sister Lynn
Able -bodied works around
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our house,
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but my old man
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ChordsF G C Dm Bb
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