Old Ham chords by Noahjohn
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Intro 1
(D minor) (G major) (C major) (E minor) (A minor) (D minor) (G major) (C major)
Verse 1
(G major) Well,
he came (D minor) down from Iowa (G major)
in the (C major) summer of (E minor) thirty -four
(A minor) He was poor (D minor) and only
thir (G major) teen years old (C major)
(E minor) But he was (D minor) ready to be a man, (G major)
and (C major) he was dreaming of (E minor) a farm, (A minor)
with corn (D minor) as high (G major) as the clouds. (C major) (G major)
(E minor) Well his (A minor) father named (E minor) him Abraham,
but (A minor) people just called him Ham.
(E minor) Cause he (A minor) only ate (E minor) ham and potatoes,
he was a (A minor) ham and potatoes man.
(E minor) And there was (A minor) only one
chair (E minor) in his kitchen,
and it (A minor) stood in the corner of the room.
And (E minor) there he (A minor) sat alone (E minor)
at dinner every evening
and he (A minor) never used a fork or a spoon
And he nev (D minor) er had a wo (G major) man
cause he was (C major) always too busy (E minor) work (A minor) ing
And a wo (D minor) man would have
only (G major) spent his days (C major) (E minor)
And (G major) he nev (D minor) er knew his mother (G major) ,
cause she (C major) died when she
was (E minor) given birth (A minor)
But his father (D minor) told him (G major) that she was beautiful
(C major) (G major) Well he was (A minor) always in the (E minor) field
before daybreak,
at sundown, (A minor) in his bed
And (E minor) he (A minor) saved every (E minor) dollar
that he earned
Cause a (A minor) fella never knows what's ahead
And (E minor) his (A minor) hands grew hard (E minor) and rough
As an (A minor) old rusted barn by our fence
And (E minor) (A minor) after a spell, (E minor)
his feet were always aching
And his (A minor) back would make him wince
And he never kept warm (E minor) in the winter
Didn't (A minor) want to waste his firewood
Still (E minor) he (A minor) chopped every (E minor) day
till his fire was so hot
That a (A minor) fella couldn't climb it
to escape the great flood (D minor)
(G major) (C major) (E minor) (A minor) (D minor) (G major) (C major)
(G major) An (E minor) d (G major) the doc (D minor) tor, he told (G major) him Ham,
you (C major) better get your (E minor) self some rest (A minor)
Or this workin's (D minor) gonna be (G major) your en (C major) d
(G major) But (E minor) (G major) Ham (D minor) never listene (G major) d
To ad (C major) vice that anybody (E minor) told (A minor) him
Cause a man (D minor) only listens (G major) to himself (C major)
(G major) (A minor) (E minor) (A minor) (E minor) (A minor) (E minor)
(A minor)
He kept working and work (E minor) ing
for 40 long years
until work (A minor) was all he knew
And at the age of 53, (E minor)
people took (A minor) him for 72
And he nev (D minor) er had a wo (G major) man,
cause he was (C major) always too (E minor) busy work (A minor) ing
And a wo (D minor) man would have
only (G major) spent his pay (C major) (G major)
And he nev (D minor) er knew his mother (G major) ,
cause she (C major) died when she
was (E minor) given birth (A minor)
But his father (D minor) told him (G major) that she was beautiful
Old Ham
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