My father smoked his pipe chords by David Allan Coe
Verse 1
D
While my father smoked his pipe
A
D
and my mother knitted things
I wasn't always into seeing things,
G
D
it took me quite a while
A
To travel till I cherished every mile
D
I remember asking questions
G
D
early in the game
While my father smoked his pipe
A
D
and my mother knitted things
And my brother took a liking
G
to the life we'd
D
And my sister let some
A
singer put her on
G
A
Then leave her with a young 'un
D
G
And a lot of shattered dreams
D
While my father smoked his pipe
A
D
And my mother knitted things
G
A
And the factories pumped their poison
D
G
And the people prayed for peace
Verse 2
G
While their sons and daughters
Searched for new relief
A
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Verse 3
G
A
And the workers paid the taxes
Verse 4
D
G
And the salaries of the king
Verse 5
D
While my father smoked his pipe
Verse 6
A
D
And my mother knitted things
E
Verse 7
And the reason for believin'
Verse 8
A
E
slowly through the change
Verse 9
E
There were laws
that laws were made to rearrange
B
Verse 10
A
B
There were cycles within cycles
E
A
And the gifts the poets sprang
E
While my father smoked his pipe
B
E
And my mother knitted things
A
B
And a million marching men or more
E
A
Kept moving through the maze
To the beat of just one
B
drummer in those days.
A
B
And so very few would ever learn
E
A
to hear the songs we sing.
E
While their fathers smoked their pipes
B
E
and their mothers knitted things.
Yes, my father smoked his pipe
B
A
E
And my mother knitted things
E
I wasn't always into seeing things
A
It took me quite a while
My father smoked his pipe
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