My father smoked his pipe chords by David Allan Coe

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Verse 1
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While  (D major) my father smoked his pipe
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and my  (A major) mother knitted  (D major) things
I wasn't always into seeing things,
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 (G major) it took me quite  (D major) a  while
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To travel till I cherished every mile  (A major) 
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I remem (D major) ber asking questions
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early  (G major) in the  (D major) game
While my father smoked his pipe
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and my mother  (A major) knitted thing (D major) s
And my brother took a liking
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to the  (G major) life we'd
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And  (D major) my sister let some
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singer put her  (A major) on
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Then leave  (G major) her with a  (A major) young 'un
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And a  (D major) lot of shattered dreams  (G major) 
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While my father  (D major) smoked his pipe
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And my mother  (A major) knitted thing (D major) s
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And the  (G major) factories pumped their poison  (A major) 
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And the  (D major) people prayed for  (G major) peace

Verse 2

While their sons and daughters

Searched for new relief

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And the workers paid the taxes

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And the salaries of the king

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While my father smoked his pipe

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And my mother knitted things

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And the reason for believin'

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slowly through the change

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There were laws

that laws were made to rearrange

Verse 10
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There were  (A major) cycles within cycles  (B major) 
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And  (E major) the gifts the poets sprang  (A major) 
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While my father  (E major) smoked his pipe
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And my mother  (B major) knitted things  (E major) 
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And a  (A major) million marching men  (B major) or more
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Kept mov (E major) ing through the  (A major) maze
To the beat of just one
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drummer in those days.  (B major) 
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And so  (A major) very few would  (B major) ever learn
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to  (E major) hear the songs we sing.  (A major) 
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While their fathers smoked  (E major) their pipes
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and their  (B major) mothers knitted  (E major) things.
Yes, my father smoked his pipe
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And my mother  (B major) knitted things  (A major)  (E major) 
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I wasn't  (E major) always into seeing things
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It took  (A major) me quite a while