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My Old Man

Key: D

Introduction:  D   Bm   A   D  

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My old man had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train
 D 
Then he'd have to go
                                               F#m       Bm               A 
Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone
That's the reason they guessed
 D 
He'd been cursed to roam
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Came into town back before the war
Didn't even know what it was
 D 
He was looking for
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Carried a tattered bag for his violin
It was full of lots of songs
       D 
Of places that he'd been
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He talked real eeaassy, had a smiling way
To pass along to you
 D 
When his fiddle played
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Making people drop their cares and woes
To hum out loud those tunes
 D 
That his fiddle howled
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Till the people there began to join that sound
And everyone in town was laughing
 D 
Singing, dancing round
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Like the fiddler's tune
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Was all they heard that night
As if some dream said
   D 
"All the world is right"
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His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there
She had that rollin', flowin'
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Golden kind of hair
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He played for her as if she danced alone
Played his favorite songs
 D 
Ones he called his own
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He played until she was the last to go
Stopped and packed his case
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And said he'd take her home

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All the nights that passed a child was born
All the years that passed
           D 
That love would keep them warm
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All their lives they'd share a dream come true
All because she danced
 D 
While his fiddle tuned
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My old man had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train
     D 
Then he'd have to go
                               F#m         Bm                                     A 
All that I recall said when I was so young
There's no one else could really
 D 
Sing those songs he sung