Steve Goodman My Old Man chords

My Old Man by Steve Goodman

My Old Man
By Steve Goodman

I may play the A (x07650) as an alternative to standard position



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I miss my old man tonight
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I wish he was here with me
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With his corny jokes, and his cheap cigars
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He could look you in the eye, and sell you a car
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That’s not an easy thing to do, but no one ever knew
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A more charming creature on this earth
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Than my old man


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He was a pilot in the big war
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In the US Army Air Corp
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In a C-47, with a heavy load
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Carried combat cargo o’er Burma Road
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And after they dropped the bomb, he came home and married mom
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And not too long after that
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He was my old man


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And all the fights that we had
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When my brother and I got him mad
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He’d get all choked up, and start to shout
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I knew what was coming, and I tuned him out
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And now the old man is gone, and I’d give all I own
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Just to hear what he said, when I wasn’t listing
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To my old man


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I miss the old man tonight
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I can almost see his face
A
He was always trying to watch his weight
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His heart only made it to fifty-eight
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For the first time since he died, late last night I cried
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I was wondering when I was gonna go and do that
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For my old man