Father Of A Boy Named Sue - Shel Silverstein Chords

Chords: C, F, G

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Genre: poetry, children's

[Verse 1]

C
Yeah, I lef' home when the kid was three.

F
It sure felt good to be fancy free

G C
Tho I knew it wasn't quite the fatherly thing to do.

C
But that kid kept screamin' and throwin' up

F
And pissin' in his pants til I had enough

G C
So just for revenge I went and named him Sue.

[Verse 2]

C
Yeah it was Gatlinburg in mid July

F
I was gettin' drunk and gettin' by

G C
Gettin' old and goin' from bad to worse

C
When thru the door with an awful scream

F
comes the ugliest queen I've ever seen

G
He says Hi, my name is Sue how do you do?

C
then he hit me with his purse

[Verse 3]

C
Now this ain't the way he tells the tale

F
but he scratched my face with his fingernails

G C
And then he bit my thumb and kicked me with his high-heeled shoe (I can be a

tiger)

C
I punched him in the nose and he started to cry

F
and he threw some perfume in my eye

G C
And it sure ain't easy fightin' with a boy named Sue (I can be an animal)

[Verse 4]

C
I whacked him in the head with a table and a chair

F
And he screamed hey dad you messed my hair

G C
And he kicked me in the navel and knocked out a piece of my lint

C
He was spittin' blood I was spittin' teeth

F
And we crashed through the wall and out into the street

G C
A kickin' and gougin' in the mud and the blood and his creme de menthe

[Verse 5]

C
Then out of his panties he pulls a gun

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