My Son chords by Peggy Seeger

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
When first I saw you,
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your life had just be gun
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I was bound to love you,
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my very soul was one.
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But now the bonds are changing,
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your childhood's nearly gone.
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Soon you will go, my son.
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I fed your hunger,
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I suffered all your pain
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When you smiled, I'd answer,
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that made you smile again
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Are we becoming strangers
that once did breathe
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Who are you now,
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my son?
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You wake in the morning,
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but you're dreaming all the day.
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At school you sit and gaze at
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things so far away
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Where old your hopes have faded
and yours have just begun
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What do you dream, my son?
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I've seen you watching,
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amazement in your eyes
This world we've left you
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a junk heap in disguise
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When you watch us unbelieving,
we older wiser ones
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what do you see my son
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you ask a question
you wait for my reply
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but the world's so changed
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sometimes you know as much as in
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the new world that is coming
the old must ask the young
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then where will you turn my son
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you'll reach for loving
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you'll learn that people die
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you'll go on dreaming once
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you'll learn to cry.
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And when you've joined our battle,
when you've learned right from wrong,
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then you must go, my son.
you