I Never Knew My Father(Chords)

	        Intro: F  C  G  C 

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It was twenty-five years ago when I began my life 
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The second child of a woman who tried hard to raise us right 
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She married a man when I was just a babe 
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Who treated me just like his own, even giving me his name 


 
                C         E7            Am    F 
I never knew my father, I only knew his name 
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I never knew the way he moved 
                  G7            F 
How he talked, or what he said 
                  C 
Now I'm grown and mama says, 
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'You're like your daddy, just the same' 
 


                                         F           C 
Sometimes I got to wondering, about this man I never knew 
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When I'd find myself into something, just the way he used to do   
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Heard stories all my life of how he loved to sing   
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And how he would take apart and fix most anything 


 
                C         E7            Am    F 
I never knew my father, I only knew his name 
                 G7            F   
I never knew the way he moved 
                  G7            F 
How he talked, or what he said 
                  C 
Now I'm grown and mama says, 
                  G7              C       
'You're like your daddy, just the same' 
 


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I can't say, that I don't care that he died before I was born   
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I get to asking why he did, and I'll probably ask some more 
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My life's been good and I can't say that I've had it bad   
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But now I'm seeing years that my dad never had 


 
                C         E7            Am    F 
I never knew my father, I only knew his name 
                 G7            F   
I never knew the way he moved 
                  G7            F 
How he talked, or what he said 
                     C 
Now I'm grown and my mama says, 
                  G7              C      F  C  G  C 
'You're like your daddy, just the same'