Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)(Chords)

	        SPOKEN INTRO (no music): Let me tell you about a song that I feel explains
itself.  It's called: 'Daddy Frank, the Guitar Man.'


INTRO:    | D       | A       | D(stop)      | NC

CHORUS:         |D               |              |             |
          Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,
          |                 |             |A        |
          Sister played the ringing tambourine.
          |             |               |          |
          Mama couldn't hear our pretty music,
              |                 |                 |D           |
          She read our lips and helped the family sing.
               D
          That little band was all a part of living,
                                              A
          And our only means of living at the time;

          And it wasn't like no normal family combo,
                                               D
          Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was blind.


|G             |               |D          |
Frank and mama counted on each other;
      |G           |                  |Bm          |
Their one and only weakness made them strong.
|G           |               |D           |
Mama did the driving for the family,
    |Bm          |             |A           |
And Frank made a living with a song.

|G              |              |D           |
Home was just a camp along the highway;
  |G              |               |Bm          |
A pick-up bed was where we bedded down.
      |G          |            |D           |
Don't ever once remember going hungry,
       |D      G    |D      A      |D        |D       <-1 strum
But I remember mama cooking on the ground.            per letter


REPEAT CHORUS


(G)Don't remember how they got ac(D)quainted;
I (G)can't recall just how it came to (Bm)be.
There (G)had to be some special help from (D)someone,
And (Bm)blessed be the one that let it (A)be.

(G)Fever caused my mama's loss of (D)hearing.
(G)Daddy Frank was born without his (Bm)sight.
(G)And mama needed someone she could (D)lean on,
    |D  G         |D     A       |D        |Bb    <-changes key
And I believe the guitar man was right.


REPEAT CHORUS IN KEY OF Eb Either capo up one fret or substitute
Eb for D, and Bb for A.  FADE OUT TOWARDS END OF CHORUS.
	        

Written by Merle Haggard