Father of Mine

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