View Guitar Chords for Father of mine acoustic - chords ver. 1
This is based on an acoustic performance given by Art Alexakis for Guitar Centre and is easily found on Youtube if you want to see the strumming pattern and the chord changes on the interlude. the tuning is one full step down great song, enjoy!D Father of mine Tell me where have you been? G You know I just closed by eyes Em My whole world disappeared D Father of mine F# Take me back to the day G Yeah, when I was still your golden boy Em Back before you went away Dinterlude D A G F# G A(pull off) D A G F# (yeah yeah) G DD Father of mine F# Tell me where did you go? G Yeah, you had the world inside Emyour hand But you did not seem to know D D Father of mine F# Tell me what do you see? G When you look back at your wastEmed life And you don't see me D(Palm mute)DI was ten years old F# Doin' all that I could G Em (Strum) It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy D (strum then mute) In a black neighborhood DSometimes you would send me a birthday card F# With a five dollar bill G I never understood you thEmen And I guess I never will DD A G F# G A(pull off) D Daddy Gave me a name D A G F# G A(pull off) D Daddy Gave me a name, then he walked away... D A G F# G DD yeah, D yeah, yDeah(palm mute)D Father of mine F# Tell me where have you been? G Yeah, I just closed by eyes Em And the world disappeared D Father of mine F# Tell me how do you sleep? G With the children you abandoned Em And the wife I saw you beat D I will never be safe F# I will never be sane G I will always be weird inside Em I will always be lame D Now I'm a grown man F# With a child of my own G And I swear, I'll never let her know EmAll the pain I have known D D A G F# G A(pull off) D Daddy Gave me a name D A G F# G A(pull off) D Daddy Gave me a name, then he walked away... D A G F# G DD yeah, D yeah, yDeah and he walked away... etc