Key: F
Introduction:
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O Papa sit down and hear my song
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O and if you feel like it then please sing along
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No nothing that I wanna say, I haven't said before
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But to use your words, you can never be to sure
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See, even though I don't always show
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I'm glad that you're around
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I say I'm glad that you around
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O sonny, so strange, to hear and see
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that someone so different is a soul like me
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You may have gone right, where I would have gone left
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But son, that's alright, I will always have your back
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See even though I don't always show
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I'm proud that you're my son
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Old days and all of the new wanting to be like you
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Every time I look at you
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I see myself
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I'm so proud of you
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For you help make me what I am
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A better man
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I'm just so proud of you
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O dad, your views in life tell me how they came to be
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Well see, I didn't know my father like the way that you know me
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Son, life is just too short for us to never be in touch
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O that's why I Wanna tell you that I love you very much
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Even though, I don't always show
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You know ooh and I want you to know that
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Every time I look at you
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I see myself
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And I'm so proud of you
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For you help make me what I am
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A better man
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I'm just so proud of you
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I'm here and I'll be if I can a father and a friend
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Oooh
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Every time I look at you
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I see myself
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And I'm so proud of you
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For you help make me what I am
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A son and a friend
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I'm just so proud of you
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You know that one day too, I'll be walking in your shoes
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And I'll know that you'll do fine, cause you're a son of mine
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O, dear papa tell me what you've learned, so that I don't get my fingers burned
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Son you'll see that as you go, you'll make mistakes of your own
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But that's ok man, see you live and you learn
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You live and you learn