My Old Man - Ron Hynes Chords
Chords: G, F#m, D, A, A5
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Genre: folk, rock, celtic
[Intro]
G F#m
G D
G A D A D
[Verse 1]
D F#m G D
These days I do all I can, like my old man.
D F#m
These days the state I'm in.
G A D
Sometimes I can feel just like him
D G D
Feel like Im standing in his his shoes,
G D
the very ones he would use.
G D
The watery decks on the Atlantic sea
F#m G D
look at me. Well it gets fairly uncertain up here
G D
in this slippery spotlight my dear
G D
I've been doing this for thirty-odd years,
A5
still hardly quite there
G A
Still all in all all I do what I can
[Chorus]
A G A
like my old man
A G A
like my old man
D
like my old man
[Verse 2]
D F#m
200 fools took all they knew
G A D
they went to war he went to - my my old man.
D F#m G A
When it was done most of them came home he came too.
D
He couldn't stay on
G D
So he sailed away for thirty-odd years.
G
He came home Christmas time
D
and in the young summer years
G F#m G
and mama raised five kids on a wave and a prayer
G D G D
I've got four of my own and I talk to them on the phone
G D
I got these lines on my face and my hands
A
and all I can't do for them
G A
but still all in all I do all I can
[Chorus]
A G A
like my old man
A G A
like my old man
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