Story Of My Father chords by
Abbey Lincoln

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Key: G major•

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Do we kill

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ourselves on purpose?

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Is destruction all our own?

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Are we dying for a reason?

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Is our misery all our own?

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Are the people suicidal?

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Did we come this far to die?

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Of ourselves are we to perish?

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For this useless, worthless lie?

Verse 2

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My father had a kingdom

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My father wore a crown

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They said he was an awful man

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He tried to live it down

My father built us houses

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And he kept his folks inside

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His im ages were stolen

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And his beauty was denied.

Verse 3

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My brothers are unhappy

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And my sisters they are too

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And my mother cries for glory

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And my father stands accused.

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Verse 4

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father, yes my father

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Was a brave and skillful man

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And he led and served his people

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With the magic of his hand.

Verse 5

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My father, yes my father

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His soul was sorely tried

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'Cause his images were stolen

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And his beauty was denied.

Verse 6

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Sometimes the river's

calling

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That's when he's like a mountain

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That is in mas ter over all.

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This story

Verse 7

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of my father

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Is the one I tell and give

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It's the power and the glory

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Of the life I make and live

Verse 8

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My father has a kingdom

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My father wears a crown

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And he lives within the people

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And the lives he handed down

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My father has a kingdom

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My father wears a crown

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And through the spirit of my mother,

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Lord

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The crown was handed down.

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(musical interlude)

Verse 9

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Well sometimes the

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rivers callin'

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And sometimes the shadows fall

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That's when he's like

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a moun tain

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That's a master over all.

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My father

Verse 10

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has a kingdom

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My father wears a crown

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And he lives within the people

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And the lives he handed down

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My father has a kingdom

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My father wears a crown

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Through the spirit of my mother,

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The crown was handed down

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Through the spirit of my mother

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The crown was handed down

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Through the spirit of my mother, Lord

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The crown was handed down!

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