My Fathers Old Guitar - Patch The Pirate Chords
Chords: G, Am, D, C, A, Bm, Em, B7
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Genre: folk, acoustic, storytelling
[Intro]
G Am D G
[Verse 1]
G C G
My Father was a southern boy who hailed for dixie land
G A D
He grew up picking cotton and eating grits and yams
C Bm Em
though he left old mississippi his heart never wandered far
Am D G
I could always tell it when he played his old guitar
[Chorus]
C G
My father's old guitar was scratched and mighty old,
C B7 Em
but when he touched those golden strings that music touched my soul
C Bm Em
We sang the songs of zion, of Heaven's glories grand,
Am A D G
and now my daddy's singin' over in heaven's glory land.
[Verse 2]
G C G
My dad was get his old guiater and start to strum a song
G A D
then we would gather round him for a family sing a long
C Bm Em
I watched him strum each simple chord i listened to him play
Am D G
Just hoping that my dad would start i'd play like him some day
[Verse 3]
G C G
My dad was like that old guitar, he filled our lives with song
G Em A D
He lived to praise his Saviour, and we followed right along.
C Bm Em
The music of his simple life was clear and true and sweet,
Am D G
His chords of love and notes of praise are ringing still in me.
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