G
Mama called about the D/F#
paper turns out they wrote about me
e
Now my broken heart´ the only thing that's broke about me
G
So many people should have D/F#
seen what we got going on
e
I only wanna put my heart and my life in songs
G
Writing about the pain I D/F#
felt with my daddy gone
e
About the emptiness I felt when I sat alone
G
About the happiness i feel D/F#
when I sing it loud
e
He should have heard the noise we made with the happy crowd
C
Did my grandaddy know he D
taught me what a poem was
G/B
How you can use a sentene
ce or just a simple pause
C
What will I say when my kids D
ask me who my daddy was
G/B
I thought about it for a e
while and I'm at a loss
C
Knowing that I´m gonna D
live my whole life without him
G/B
I found out a lot of e
things I never knew about him
C
All I know is that I´ll D
never really be alone
G/B
Cause we gotta lot of e
love in my happy hC
ome
G
Magazines are writing D/F#
stuff but I don´t ever read them
e
Some of the folks I used to know would see and start believing
G
That I would pass them by on D/F#
streets and never reach to greet them
e
I still remember folks even though I rarely meet them
G
Don´t you know I miss the D/F#
times when we used to hang
e
Before twenty deep depended on a single man
G
Before a single heart was D/F#
broken by a single blow
e
Before all our careers depended on a single show
C
I grew up with a lot of D
love in a happy home
G/B
Now I got a lot of e
cash and I'm on a road
C
I realize privacD
y´ becoming difficult
G/B
It´ all right now but we
hat about when I´m old
C
I know my good friendD
s now they´ll last
G/B
the same ones that stood e
by me when my daddy past
C
All I know is that we´ll D
never really be alone
G/B
Cause we got a lot of e
love and a happy home C
G
I write a lot of D/F#
songs will anybody ever read them
e
You hear them on the radio but will you really read them
G
Why do we have our idols D/F#
and why do we wanna be them
e
After we see them on TV we really wanna meet them
G
Don´t you think they miss the D/F#
time when they used to hang
e
Before a fan base depended on a single man
G
Before a single heart was D/F#
broken by a single show
e
Who´ gonna stand who´ gonna fall I really wanna know
C
I grew up with a lot of D
love in a happy home
G/B
My daddy use to play me e
vinyl but now daddy´ gone
C
I used to practice with my D
mommy on the piano
G/B
I still get nervous every e
time I know she´ at a show
C
Now my family comes D
first before everyone
G/B
I had the perfect dad I e
wanna be the perfect son
C
Though I really feel D
sometimes I am on my own
G/B
I know I got a lot of e
love and a happy home