{"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":2117943,"song":"Single Father","artist":"David Allan Coe","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11459739-single-father-chords-by-david-allan-coe/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2117943?type=chord","rating":4.61058,"votes":4,"content":"David Allan Coe - Single Father \r\nCapo 1\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nLatley I?ve been spendin? lots of time with my kid[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nTellin? him stories, about the things that we did[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWhen we were a family, such a long time ago[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI?ve answered his questions, till I?m blue in the face[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere?s so many things, time can?t erase[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nSo I just tell him the truth[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]E[/ch] \r\nCause he not to young to know.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Pre-Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nSuch is the life, of a Single Father[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                       \r\nHe says tell me dad, if it?s not too much bother[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B7[/ch]                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhy it?s just you and me, living here in this home[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI said I know there just two, when there ought to be three of us[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSharing this moments[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nYou know son I guess sometimes at night[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI feel so alone.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSingle Father[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd part time mother[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWhen I?m not one[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThen I?m the other[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I used to have[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nA full time lover[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nNow I?m a Single Father[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd a part time mother.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nLately I?ve been spendin? lots of time with my boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                     \r\nThere?s no doubt about it, he?s my pride and joy[/tab]\r\n       \r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]B7[/ch] \r\nBut someday he will grow up, and I won?t have him no more[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere was so many I found hard to explain[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo I just took him to McDonald?s, or bought him a little train[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B7[/ch]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd we go put it together, on the living room floor.[/tab]","plain_text":"David Allan Coe - Single Father \nCapo 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Pre-Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["E","A","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}