Everclear – Father Of Mine
194 bpm 4/4 Strumming [So Much For The Afterglow 1997]
Verse 1
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Father of mine… Tell me where have you been…
G (G) Em (Em)
You know I just closed by eyes… my whole world disappeared…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Father of mine… Take me back to the day…
G (G) Em (Em)
Yeah when I was still your golden boy back before you went away…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
I remember blue-eee skies walking the block…
G (G) Em (Em)
I loved it when you held me high… I loved to hear you talk…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
You would take me to the movie… You would take me to the beach…
G(G) Em (Em)
Take me to a place inside that's so hard to reach…
Interlude
D A. G. F#m G. A. D A. G. F#m G. A.
Verse 2
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Father of mine… Tell me where did you go…
G (G) Em (Em)
Yeah you had the world inside your hand but you did not seem to know…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Father of mine… Tell me what do you see…
G (G) Em (Em)
When you look back at your wasted life and you don't see me…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
I was ten years old… Doing all that I could…
G (G) Em (Em)
It wasn't easy for me… to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a five dollar bill…
G (G) Em (Em)
I never understood you then and I guess I never will…
Chorus
D A. G. F#m G. A.
Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
My daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
Solo
D A. G. F#m G. A. D A. G. F#m G. A.
Chorus
D A. G. F#m G. A.
Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
My daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
Interlude
D A. G. F#m G. A. D A. G. F#m * G. (A.)
Verse 3
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Father of mine… Tell me where have you been…
G (G) Em (Em)
You know I just closed by eyes… my whole world disappeared…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Father of mine… Tell me how do you sleep…
G (G) Em (Em)
With the children you abandoned and the wife I saw you beat…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
I will never be safe… I will never be sane…
G (G) Em (Em)
I will always be weird-ddd inside I will always be lame…
D (D) F#m (F#m)
Now I'm a grown man… with a child of my own…
G (G) Em (Em)
and I swear I'll never let her know… all the pain I have known…
Interlude
D A. G. F#m G. A. D A. G. F#m G. A.
Outro
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
D A. G. F#m G. A.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Then he walked away…
D A. G. F#m
Then he walked away…
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