I Never Knew My Father

Intro: F C G C F C It was twenty-five years ago when I began my life Am D G F The second child of a woman who tried hard to raise us right C E7 Am F She married a man when I was just a babe C G7 C F Who treated me just like his own, even giving me his name [Refrão] C E7 Am F I never knew my father, I only knew his name G7 F I never knew the way he moved G7 F How he talked, or what he said C Now I'm grown and mama says, G7 C F C G C "You're like your daddy, just the same" F C Sometimes I got to wondering, about this man I never knew Am D G F When I'd find myself into something, just the way he used to do C E7 Am F Heard stories all my life of how he loved to sing C G7 C F And how he would take apart and fix most anything [Refrão] C E7 Am F I never knew my father, I only knew his name G7 F I never knew the way he moved G7 F How he talked, or what he said C Now I'm grown and mama says, G7 C "You're like your daddy, just the same" Instrumental: C F C Am D G F C E7 Am F C G7 C F C I can't say, that I don't care that he died before I was born Am D G F I get to asking why he did, and I'll probably ask some more C E7 Am F My life's been good and I can't say that I've had it bad C G7 C F But now I'm seeing years that my dad never had [Refrão] C E7 Am F I never knew my father, I only knew his name G7 F I never knew the way he moved G7 F How he talked, or what he said C Now I'm grown and my mama says, G7 C F C G C "You're like your daddy, just the same"