My Old Man Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[C]My old man
[Dm]had a rounder [G]soul
He'd hear an ol' freight train
[C]and he'd have to go
Said he'd been blessed with a
[Dm]gypsy [G]bone
And that's the reason I guess that
[C]he'd been cursed to roam
Came to town back be[Dm]fore [G]the war
Didn't even know what it was
[C]he was lookin' for
He carried a tattered bag for his [Dm]violin[G]
Full of lots of songs of the
[C]places he had been
He talked real easy [Dm]and
he smiled and waved
[G]He could pass along to you
[C]when his fiddle played
Makin' [Dm]people drop their
cares [G]and woes
And hum out loud the tunes
[C]that his fiddle bowed
Til the people there [Dm]began to join
that [G]sound
And ev'ryone in town was laughin,'
[C]singin,' dancin' 'round
Like the Fiddler's tunes we all
[Dm]there heard that [G]night
Like some dream that says [C]all
the world is [F]right[G][C]
Instrumental Break
The Fiddler's eye [Dm]caught a beauty there
[G]She had that rollin' flow
[C]in' golden kind of hair
He played for her as if she
[Dm]danced [G]alone
He played his favorite songs,
the [C]ones he called his own
She alone was dan[Dm]cin'
in [G]the room
The only thing left [C]movin' to that Fiddler's [F]tune
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Instrumental break
[C]He played until she was the [Dm]last to go
[G]The he stopped and packed his case,
[C]said he'd take her home
In all the nights that passed
[Dm]a child was [G]born
In all the years that passed,
[C]love would keep them warm
And all their lives they'd share
that [Dm]dream come [G]true
And all because she danced so well
[C]his fiddler [F]tune[G]
[C]
Instrumental break
The train next mornin' blew a
[Dm]lonesome [G]sound
As if she sang the blues [C]of what
she took from town
And all that I recall that was [Dm]said
when I was [F]young[G]
There's no one else could really [C]sing [Dm]those
[C]songs he sung

[Outro 1]
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