my old man chords by John Prine
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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And
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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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my old man
John Prine
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