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My Father

Key: G

Introduction: G    C    G    C    G    

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My father always promised us
C                                         G  
We would live in France
We'd go sailing on the Seine
          C                                         D              Em  
And I would learn to dance
                                  A  
We lived in Ohio then
          D                                                         Dm  
And he worked in the mines
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On his dreams, like boats, we knew
C                                         Bb      G  
We would sail in time___
All my sisters soon were gone
        C                                    G  
To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
          C                                    D         Em  
The lilacs and the man
                                A                                         D  
I stayed behind the youngest
                                                             Dm  
And only danced alone
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The colours of my father's dreams
C                                      Bb              G  
Faded without a sound
And now I live in Paris
                  C                                              G  
And my children dance and dream
Hearing the story of a miner's life
        C                                                 D         Em  
In words they've never seen
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I sailed my memories of old
             D                                                            Dm  
Like boats across the Seine
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And I watched the Paris sun
C                                              Bb         G  
Set in my father's eyes again
My father always promised us

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