Key: G
Introduction: G
Bm
C
D
G
Bm
My boss'll tell you that I've been to work all week on time
C
G
And I ain't had no liquor on my breath
G
Bm
Ain't no kind of secret I've been known to take a drink
C
D
And it's made me do some things that I regret
C
G
Loretta said this ain't no kind of way to raise a family
C
D
And one night she called it quits and called a cab
C
G
She left the clothes out on the clothes line and the dishes in the sink
C
D
So I guess she knows that she ain't comin' back
G
Bm
But I just wanna see my kids, I just wanna hold my girls
C
D
Heaven knows I ain't got much of nothin' else in this whole world
G
Bm
I just wanna be around enough to know that they've been loved
C
D
G
I just wanna be the daddy my daddy never was
G
Bm
C
D
Verse
G
Bm
Now lately she's been knowing this ol' boy she met in church
C
D
And I can't say she's wrong for wantin' more
G
Bm
I gave him the right to tell my wife that I can't come around
C
D
The night I knocked a hole in her front door
C
G
And Loretta took my keys and she made me wait outside
C
D
But she didn't call the law she called a cab
C
G
And as I pulled away I saw somethin' in her eyes
C
D
So I reckon that she knows I ain't so bad
G
Bm
But I just wanna see my kids, I just wanna hold my girls
C
D
Heaven knows I ain't got much of nothin' else in this whole world
G
Bm
I just wanna be around enough to know that they've been loved
C
D
G
I just wanna be the daddy my daddy never was
G
Bm
C
D
Bridge
G
Bm
My boss'll tell you that I've been to work all week on time
C
D
(let
And I ain't had no liquor on my breath
G
Bm
C
D
G