The Randall Knife chords by Guy Clark

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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My father had a Randall  (D major) 
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knife  (E minor) 
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My mother gave it to him  (A major) 
When he went off to WWII
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To  (E minor) save us  (G major) all  (F major) from  (E minor) ruin  (D major) 
If you've ever held a Randall knife
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 (E minor) Then you know my  (A major) father well  (E minor)  (A major) 
If a better blade was ever made
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It was probably  (E minor) forged in hell
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 (D major) 

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Verse 2
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My father was a good man  (E minor) 
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A lawyer  (D major) by his  (E minor) trade  (A major) 
And only once did I ever see
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Him mis (E minor) use  the blade  (G major)  (E minor)  (D major) 
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It almost cut his thumb off  (E minor) 
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When he took it for a tool  (A major) 
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The knife  (E minor) was made for dark (A major) er things
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And  (E minor) you could not  (G major) bend  (E minor) the rules
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 (D major) 

Verse 3
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He let me take it camping once  (E minor) 
On a Boy Scout jamboree
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And  (A major) I broke a half an inch off
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Trying to  (E minor) stick it in a tree  (D major) 
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I hid it from him for a while  (E minor) 
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But the knife  (G major) and he were one  (E minor)  (A major) 
He put it in his bottom drawer
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Without  (E minor) a    hard word  (A major) one
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 (D major) 

Verse 4
There it slept and there it stayed
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 (E minor) For twenty some odd years  (G major)  (E minor)  (A major) 
Sort of like Excalibur
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 (E minor) Except waiting for a tear

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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My father died  (D major) when I was forty
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 (E minor) And I couldn't find a way to cry  (A major) 
Not because I didn't love him
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Not  (E minor) because he didn't try  (D major) 
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I'd cried for every lesser thing  (E minor) 
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Whiskey, pain and beauty  (A major) 
But he deserved a better tear
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And  (G major) I  was not quite  (E minor)  (D major) ready

Verse 6
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 (D major) 
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So we took his ashed out to sea  (E minor) 
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And poured `em off the stern  (A major)  (E minor)  (A major) 
And threw the roses in the wake
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Of everything  (E minor) we'd learned  (D major) 
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When we got back to the house  (E minor) 
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They asked me what  (G major) I wanted  (E minor)  (A major) 
Not the lawbooks not the watch
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 (E minor) I need the things he's haunted
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 (D major) 