My Old Man

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Intro:
F#m Bm A
My old man had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train
D
Then he'd have to go
F#m Bm A
Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone
That's the reason they guessed
D
He'd been cursed to roam
F#m Bm A
Came into town back before the war
Didn't even know what it was
D
He was looking for
F#m Bm A
Carried a tattered bag for his violin
It was full of lots of songs
D
Of places that he'd been
F#m Bm A
He talked real eeaassy, had a smiling way
To pass along to you
D
When his fiddle played
F#m Bm A
Making people drop their cares and woes
To hum out loud those tunes
D
That his fiddle howled
F#m Bm A
Till the people there began to join that sound
And everyone in town was laughing
D
Singing, dancing round
F#m
Like the fiddler's tune
Bm A
Was all they heard that night
As if some dream said
D
"All the world is right"
F#m Bm A
His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there
She had that rollin', flowin'
D
Golden kind of hair
F#m Bm A
He played for her as if she danced alone
Played his favorite songs
D
Ones he called his own
F#m Bm A
He played until she was the last to go
Stopped and packed his case
D
And said he'd take her home
F#m Bm
A D
F#m Bm A
All the nights that passed a child was born
All the years that passed
D
That love would keep them warm
F#m Bm A
All their lives they'd share a dream come true
All because she danced
D
While his fiddle tuned
F#m Bm A
My old man had a rounder's soul
He'd hear an old freight train
D
Then he'd have to go
F#m Bm A
All that I recall said when I was so young
There's no one else could really
D
Sing those songs he sung

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Free chords for My Old Man by John Denver. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

Intro: D Bm A D 
He'd hear an old freight train
That's the reason they guessed
Didn't even know what it was
It was full of lots of songs
To pass along to you
To hum out loud those tunes
And everyone in town was laughing
As if some dream said
She had that rollin', flowin'
Played his favorite songs
Stopped and packed his case
F#m  Bm        
A    D 
All the years that passed
All because she danced
He'd hear an old freight train
There's no one else could really

My Old Man Chords by John Denver

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