{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1996893,"song":"Forefathers","artist":"Dan Fogelberg","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11446547-forefathers-chords-by-dan-fogelberg/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1996893?type=chord","rating":4.76775,"votes":17,"content":"FOREFATHERS\r\nDan Fogelberg\r\n\r\nCapo 2\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey'd heard that in America every man was free [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo live the way he chose to live and be who he could be.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSome of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil. [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil. [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round, [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMade home port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMy mother was of Scottish blood, it's there that she was born.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nThey brought her to America in 1924. [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nMy granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHis daughter was his jewel, his son was just his boy. [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nFor thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire. [/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAs the torch is passed from hand to hand [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we struggle through our lives.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\nThough the generations wander, the lineage survives,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] \r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe woman and the man were wed just after the war [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nOne became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd one became this lonely soul who sits here now [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd sings this song to you.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAs the torch is passed from hand to hand [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we struggle through our lives.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Am7[/ch]\r\nThough the generations wander, the lineage survives,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by. [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBy and by...[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBy and by...[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]","plain_text":"FOREFATHERS\nDan Fogelberg\n\nCapo 2\n\n[Intro]\nC F C F C F C F\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\nC F C F C F C F C F C F C F \n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nC F C F C F C F","chords":["C","F","Am","G","Em","Am7"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Am7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,0,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}