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Capo 2nd Fret to match recording (all chords relative)
G Em C D G
I woke up crying late at night when I was very young
C G Am D
I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone
G Em C D G
My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore
C G Am D G
So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door
C G Am G
And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone that way?
C G Am D
Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"
Chorus:
C D G C D G C D
And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do. Everything I do is
G C D Em C D G
because of you, to keep you safe with me. That's my job you see."
G Em C D G
Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he
C G Am D
Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams we each held for me
G Em C D G
He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out West
C G
Said, "I could make it out there if I just had the fare.
Am D G
I got half, will you loan me the rest."
C G Am G
And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid. There's no guarentee in the plans
C G Am
I've made. And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"
Chorus:
C D G C D G C D
And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do. Everything I do is
G C D Em C D G
because of you, to keep you safe with me. That's my job you see."
Em D C D G
Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with light
C Em C Am D
And I pray someday I might light as bright as he
G Em C D G
Woke up early one bright fall day, to spread the tragic news
C G Am D
After all my travels I settled down within a mile or two
G Em C D G
I make my living with words and rhyme and all this tragedy
C G Am D G
Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry
C G Am G
But I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone this
way?
C G Am D
How can I come up with a song to say I love you.......?"
C D G C D G C D
"That's my job, that's what I do. Everything I do is
G C D Em C D G
because of you, to keep you safe with me. That's my job you see."
C D G C D Em
Everything I do is because of you, to keep you safe with me....
C D G
