The Randall Knife
The Randall Knife

The Randall Knife easy guitar chords by Guy Clark

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    • Intro 1



    Verse 1
    My 
    father 
    had 
    a Randall 

    knife 

    My 
    mother 
    gave 
    it 
    to 
    him 

    When he 
    went 
    off 
    to 
    WWII 

    To 
    save 
    us 
    all 
    from 
    ruin 

    If you've 
    ever 
    held 
    a Randall 
    knife 

    Then 
    you know my 
    father 
    well 

    If a better 
    blade 
    was 
    ever 
    made 

    It was 
    probably 
    forged 
    in 
    hell 

    Verse 2

    My 
    father 
    was 
    a 
    good 
    man 

    A 
    lawyer 
    by 
    his 
    trade 

    And only 
    once 
    did I 
    ever 
    see 

    Him 
    mis
    use 
    the 
    blade 

    It almost 
    cut 
    his 
    thumb 
    off 

    When he 
    took 
    it for 
    a 
    tool 

    The 
    knife 
    was made 
    for 
    dark
    er 
    things 

    And 
    you 
    could 
    not 
    bend 
    the rules 

    Verse 3

    He let 
    me take 
    it 
    camping 
    once 

    On a Boy 
    Scout 
    jamboree 

    And 
    I 
    broke 
    a 
    half 
    an inch 
    off 

    Trying 
    to 
    stick 
    it in 
    a tree 

    I 
    hid 
    it 
    from 
    him 
    for 
    a while 

    But the 
    knife 
    and 
    he 
    were one 

    He 
    put 
    it in 
    his 
    bottom 
    drawer 

    Without 
    a 
    hard 
    word 
    one 

    Verse 4

    There 
    it slept 
    and there 
    it stayed 

    For 
    twenty 
    some 
    odd 
    years 

    Sort 
    of like 
    Excalibur 

    Except 
    waiting 
    for 
    a tear 

    Interlude 1



    Verse 5
    My 
    father 
    died 
    when I 
    was 
    forty 

    And 
    I couldn't 
    find 
    a way 
    to cry 

    Not 
    because 
    I didn't 
    love 
    him 

    Not 
    because 
    he 
    didn't 
    try 

    I'd 
    cried 
    for every 
    lesser 
    thing 

    Whiskey, 
    pain 
    and beauty 

    But 
    he deserved 
    a 
    better 
    tear 

    And 
    I 
    was 
    not 
    quite 
    ready 

    Verse 6

    So 
    we took 
    his 
    ashed out 
    to sea 

    And 
    poured 
    `em off 
    the 
    stern 

    And 
    threw 
    the roses 
    in 
    the wake 

    Of 
    everything 
    we'd 
    learned 

    When 
    we got 
    back 
    to 
    the house 

    They 
    asked 
    me what 
    I wanted 

    Not 
    the 
    lawbooks 
    not 
    the watch 

    I 
    need 
    the 
    things 
    he's 
    haunted 


    Verse 7
    My 
    hand 
    burned 
    for the 
    Randall 
    knife 

    There 
    in the 
    bottom 
    drawer 

    And I found 
    a 
    tear 
    for my 
    father's 
    life 

    And 
    all 
    that it stood 
    for 

    Outro 1



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