Father of Mine

[Verse]
 A                C#
   Father of mine    tell me where have you been
 D                              B
   You know I just closed by eyes my whole world disappeared
 A                C#
   Father of mine    take me back to the day
 D                              B
   Yeah when I was still your golden boy back before you went away
 A               C#
   I remember blue skies walking the block
 D                        B
   I loved it when you held me high I loved to hear you talk
 A                           C#
   You would take me to the movie you would take me to the beach
 D                   C#  C#b  B                               A
   You would take me to a place inside that's so hard to reach
 
 [Instrumental]
 A    E  D  C#    D  E (x2)
 
 [Verse]
 A                C#
   Father of mine    tell me where did you go
 D                          B
   Yeah you had the world inside your hand but you did not seem to know
 A                C#
   Father of mine    tell me what do you see
 D                             B
   When you look back at your wasted life and you don't see me
 A                  C#
   I was ten years old doin' all that I could
 D                               B
   It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood
 A                               C#
   Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a five dollar bill
 D               C#  C#b  B
   I never understood you then and I guess I never will
 
 [Chorus]
 A    E  D  C#         D     E
               Aaddy gave me a name
 A    E  D  C#       D     E
          My daddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#         D     E
   Then he walked away       Aaddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#        D     E
   Then he walked away   My daddy gave me a name
 
 [Instrumental]
 A    C#    D    C#  C#b  B
 
 [Chorus]
 A    E  D  C#         D     E
               Aaddy gave me a name
 A    E  D  C#       D     E
          My daddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#         D     E
   Then he walked away       Aaddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#        D     E
   Then he walked away   My daddy gave me a name
 A
   Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Yeah.
 
 [Verse]
 A                C#
   Father of mine    tell me where have you been
 D                              B
   You know I just closed by eyes my whole world disappeared
 A                C#
   Father of mine    tell me how do you sleep
 D                          B
   With the children you abandoned and the wife I saw you beat
 A                      C#
   I will never be safe    I will never be sane
 D                     B
   I will always be weird inside I will always be lame
 A                     C#
   Now I'm a grown man    with a child of my own
 D                 C#  C#b  B                                   A
   And I swear I'll never let her know all the pain I have known
 
 [Instrumental]
 A    E  D  C#    D  E (x2)
 
 [Chorus]
 A                 E   D  C#         D     E
   Then he walked away       Aaddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#        D     E
   Then he walked away   My daddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#        D     E
   Then he walked away   My daddy gave me a name
 A                 E   D  C#        D     E
   Then he walked away   My daddy gave me a name
 A
   Then he walked away yeah
 A
   Then he walked away yeah
 A
   Then he walked away