Key: G
Introduction: G D G C G D G D G
D
Daddy, are you coming home tonight
G G/B C
And if you do, do you promise you will be alright
G
You won?t stumble up the stairs
C
Or fall over the front room chairs
G D G
And you and mommy won?t get in a fight
Verse
D
Daddy, when you stay out late, mommy cries sometimes
G C
She tells us she?s okay, but she keeps on crying
G
Her face is sad and mad
C
We wish she?d be more glad
G/B D G
Maybe you could make her laugh sometime
Verse
D
Daddy, if you have some time would you talk to me
G G/B C
And maybe if you look hard enough you?ll see
G
That I?m lonely deep inside
C Am7
But it?s okay 'cause I can hide it
G D G
And no one else will ever have to see
Bridge
C D G
And all the things I feel, I keep inside
C D G
And mommy says, ?Don?t talk about it?, so I keep quiet
Am D C
I?ll be good, I promise, I?ll be good
Instrumental
G D G C G D Em D G
Verse
D
Daddy, I heard you tell momma that it wasn?t true
G G/B C
All the things I know you did, you said you didn?t do
G
You said you didn?t wanna hear
C
That your children live in fear
G D G
Daddy, I?m telling now, they do
Verse
D
Daddy, are you coming home tonight
G G/B C
And if you do, do you promise you will be alright
G
You won?t stumble up the stairs
C
Or fall over the front room chairs
G D G
And you and mommy won?t get in a fight
Outro