Key: C major•
Intro 1
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F
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E
Am
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G
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Verse 1
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years ago when I began my life
The second child of a woman
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G
who tried hard to raise us right
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C
She married a man when
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Am
I was just a babe
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C
Who treated me just like his own,
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even giving me his name
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C
I never knew my father,
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Am
I only knew his name
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G
I never knew the way he moved,
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G
how he talked or what he said
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G
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C
just the same
Sometimes I got to wondering
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C
About this man I never knew
But I find myself in something
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G
Just the way he used to do
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C
Heard stories all my life
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Am
of how he loved to sing
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C
And how he would take apart
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C
and fix most anything
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I never knew my father,
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I only knew his name
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G
I never knew the way he moved
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G
How he talked or what he said
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Dm
An d now I'm grown and
Interlude 1
just the same
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Dm
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Am
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D
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Verse 2
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That he died before I was born
I get to asking why he did
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And I'll probably ask some more
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But my life's been good,
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I can't say that I've had it bad
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But now I'm seeing years
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that my dad never had
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I never knew my father,
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I only knew his name
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I never knew the way he moved,
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how he talked or what he said
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C
E
Am
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C
same
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You
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