My Old Man chords by
John Denver

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Key: D major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Em Em 
 
My old man had a
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A A 
 
rounder'ssoul.
He'd hear an old freight train.
D D 
 
Then he'd have to go.
Said he'd been blessed with a gipsy
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G G 
 
bone.

Verse 2

That's the reason they guessed

He'd been cursed to roam.

Came into town back before the war.

Verse 3

Didn't even know what it was

He was looking for.

He carried a tattered bag for his violin.

Verse 4

It was full of lots of songs

Of places that he'd been.

He talked real ea-sy had

had a smiling way

Verse 5

To pass along to you

When his fiddle played.

Making people drop their cares

and woes.

Verse 6
A A 
 
To hum out loud those tunes
D D 
 
That his fiddle howed.
A A 
 
Till the people there began
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G G 
 
to join that sound.

Verse 7

And everyone in town was laughing.

Singing, dancing round.

Like the fiddler's tune was all

they heard that night.

Verse 8

As if some dream said

"All the world is right"

His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there.

Verse 9

She had that rollin' flowin'

golden kind of hair.

He played for her as if she danced alone.

Verse 10

played his favorite songs.

Ones he called his own.

He played until she was the last to go.

Verse 11

He stopped and packed his case

And said he'd take her home.

Verse 12
All the nights that passed
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G G 
 
A A 
 
a child was born.
All the years that passed.
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That love would keep them warm.
All their lives they'd share
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G G 
 
a dream come true.

Verse 13
A A 
 
All because she danced
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A A 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
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A A 
 
while his fiddle tuned.
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Em Em 
 
My old man had a   round
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er's soul.

Verse 14
A A 
 
He'd hear an old freight
D D 
 
train.
Then he'd have to go.
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Em Em 
 
All that I recall said when
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I was so young.

Verse 15

No one else could really

Outro 1

Sing those songs he sung.

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsD G A Em Bm

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