my old man chords by
John Prine

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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I miss

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my old man tonight

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And I wish he was here with me

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With his corny jokes, and his cheap cigars

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He could look you in the eye, and

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sell you a car

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That’s not an easy thing to do

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but no one ever knew

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A more charming creature on this earth

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Than my old man

Verse 2

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He was a pilot in the big war

In the US Army Air Corp

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In a C- 47, with a heavy load

Carrying combat cargo

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o’er Burma Road

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And after they dropped the bomb

he came home and married mom

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And not too long after that

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He was my old man

Verse 3

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An d

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oh the fights that we had

When my brother and me

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got him mad

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He’d get all boiled up,

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and start to shout

We knew what was coming,

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so we tuned him out

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And now the old man is gone

and I’d give all I own

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Just to hear what he said,

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when I wasn’t listing

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To my old man

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Verse 4

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I miss my old man tonight

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I can almost see his face

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He was always trying to watch his weight

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His heart only made it to fifty- eight

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For the first time since he died,

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late last night I cried

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I was wondering when

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I was gonna go and do that

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For my old man

Outro 1

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