{"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":2691867,"song":"Randall Knife","artist":"Guy Clark","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11524804-randall-knife-chords-by-guy-clark/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2691867?type=chord","rating":4.81639,"votes":49,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMy father had a Randall knife, my mother gave it to him[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen he went off to WWII to save us all from ruin[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow if you've ever held a Randall knife, you know my father well[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIf a better blade was ever made, it was probably forged in hell[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMy father was a good man, he was a lawyer by his trade[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd only once did I ever see him misuse the blade[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWell, it almost cut his thumb off when he took it for a tool[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAh, the knife was made for darker things and could not bend the rules[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe let me take it camping once on a Boy Scout jamboree[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I broke a half an inch off trying to stick it in a tree[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI hid it from him for a while but the knife and he were one[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe put it in his bottom drawer without a hard word one[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd there it slept and there it stayed For twenty some odd years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSort of like Excalibur except waiting for a tear[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMy father died when I was forty and I couldn't find a way to cry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNot because I didn't love him not and not because he didn't try[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI'd cried for every lesser thing, for Whiskey, pain and beauty[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut he deserved a better tear and I was not quite ready[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo we took his ashes out to sea and poured 'em off the stern[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd threw the roses in the wake of everything we'd learned[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd when we got back to the house, they asked me what I wanted[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNot the lawbooks, not the watch, I need the things he's haunted[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMy hand burned for the Randall knife there in the bottom drawer[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                       [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I found a tear for my father's life and all that it stood for[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]","chords":["D","Em","A","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}