My Old Man chords Guitar Chords By John Denver
Intro: C Am G C
Em Am G
My old man had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train
C
Then he'd have to go
Em Am G
Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone
That's the reason they guessed
C
He'd been cursed to roam
Em Am G
Came into town back before the war
Didn't even know what it was
C
He was looking for
Em Am G
Carried a tattered bag for his violin
It was full of lots of songs
C
Of places that he'd been
Em Am G
He talked real eeaassy, had a smiling way
To pass along to you
C
When his fiddle played
Em Am G
Making people drop their cares and woes
To hum out loud those tunes
C
That his fiddle howled
Em Am G
Till the people there began to join that sound
And everyone in town was laughing
C
Singing, dancing round
Em
Like the fiddler's tune
Am G
Was all they heard that night
As if some dream said
C
"All the world is right"
Em Am G
His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there
She had that rollin', flowin'
C
Golden kind of hair
Em Am G
He played for her as if she danced alone
Played his favorite songs
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Ones he called his own
Em Am G
He played until she was the last to go
Stopped and packed his case
C
And said he'd take her home
Em Am
G C
Em Am G
All the nights that passed a child was born
All the years that passed
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That love would keep them warm
Em Am G
All their lives they'd share a dream come true
All because she danced
C
While his fiddle tuned
Em Am G
My old man had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train
C
Then he'd have to go
Em Am G
All that I recall said when I was so young
There's no one else could really
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Sing those songs he sung
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