Everclear – Father Of Mine
Capo 2nd 194 bpm 4/4 8th Note Strumming
[So Much For The Afterglow 1997]
Verse 1
C (C) Em (Em)
Father of mine… Tell me where have you been…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
You know I just closed by eyes… my whole world disappeared…
C (C) Em (Em)
Father of mine… Take me back to the day…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
Yeah when I was still your golden boy back before you went away…
C (C) Em (Em)
I remember blue-eee skies walking the block…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
I loved it when you held me high… I loved to hear you talk…
C (C) Em (Em)
You would take me to the movie… You would take me to the beach…
F F Dm Dm
Take me to a place inside that's so hard to reach…
Interlude
C G. F. Em F. G. C G. F. Em F. G.
Verse 2
C (C) Em (Em)
Father of mine… Tell me where did you go…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
Yeah you had the world inside your hand but you did not seem to know…
C (C) Em (Em)
Father of mine… Tell me what do you see…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
When you look back at your wasted life and you don't see me…
C (C) Em (Em)
I was ten years old… Doing all that I could…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
It wasn't easy for me… to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood…
C (C) Em (Em)
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a five dollar bill…
F F Dm Dm
I never understood you then and I guess I never will…
Chorus
C G. F. Em F. G.
Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
My daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
Solo
C G. F. Em F. G. C G. F. Em F. G.
Chorus
C G. F. Em F. G.
Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
My daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
Interlude
C G. F. Em F. G. C G. F. Em * F. (G.)
Verse 3
C (C) Em (Em)
Father of mine… Tell me where have you been…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
You know I just closed by eyes… my whole world disappeared…
C (C) Em (Em)
Father of mine… Tell me how do you sleep…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
With the children you abandoned and the wife I saw you beat…
C (C) Em (Em)
I will never be safe… I will never be sane…
F (F) Dm (Dm)
I will always be weird-ddd inside I will always be lame…
C (C) Em (Em)
Now I'm a grown man… with a child of my own…
F F Dm Dm
and I swear I'll never let her know… all the pain I have known…
Interlude
C G. F. Em F. G. C G. F. Em F. G.
Outro
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Daddy gave me a name…
C G. F. Em F. G.
THEN HE WALKED AWAY… Then he walked away…
C G. F. / Em /
Then he walked away…