Key: B major•
Verse 1
D#m
C#m
You know I was so ragged
G#
C#m
folks used to call me Patches
B
F#
My daddy poked fun of me but
F#
E
He couldn't do no better
F#
E
See, education he never had,
choked up.
E
B
Put his hands on my shoulders said,
D#m
he said, Patches, I'm depending on your son
To pull the family through
B
A
E
G#
C#m
My son, it's all left up to you
that was Daddy's strictest rule
chopped wood too
B
D
Sometimes I felt like I couldn't go on
A
B
D
But I could still hear what my daddy said
E
B
With tears in his eyes, on his iron bed
He said, Patches,
G#
C#m
rest guitar so lo
and washed all the crops away
E
D#m
At the age of 13 I felt I had the whole weight
C#m
G#
of the world on my shoulders
was goin' through
make it one more day
He said, hey Jesus,
to pull the family through
A
E
My son, it's all left up to you
G#
C#m
I can still hear my
B
D#m
Patches, I'm dependin' on you son,
G#
C#m
Daddy, I hear you
F#
B
Yes, I am, Daddy!
E
C#m
E
My son is all and all to you
B
E
Daddy! Daddy!
B
B
Oh, Daddy! piano & Oh! My life story.
It took a lot out of me.
Gilbert and Sullivan.
What? Gilbert and Sullivan.
It's my birthday.
Did you tell me to go Sullivan?
I know, the only Republican
-recognized method of birth control.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E D#m C#m G#...
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