Chords for Bluegrass Diamonds

_ _ _ [G] I _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ was walking all _ alone through the shabby part of town [D] when I saw my little folks [G] busy
[C] playing with their toys.
_ _ Soon they stopped their happy romping and they climbed into their wagon.
[D] Few still cried as the young'uns started [C] talking.
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He said, Jim, did you hear mommy cry again last night?
_ [D] Oh, daddy's never here and to [C] me it don't [G] seem right. _
_ Seems to me if I was daddy and had a wife as sweet as mommy,
_ [D] I'd never drink, I'd stay home every night. _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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How come _ daddy's always drinking?
Don't he know how long he's doing? _
[D] He tells us we don't love him, that's not [C] _ right.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ There's love in my heart for father, but I also love my mother.
_ [D] We'll have to make him _ understand, [C] _ _ [G] won't we Jim? _
_ _ In my hand I held a brook which I broke upon the stone.
_ [D] I knew then how I'd been [G] leaving [G] my wife all alone. _
_ _ I knew I'd never drink again as I went home with my children.
And [D] I heard him shouting, mommy, mommy, _ daddy's home again.
_ _ _ And I [D] heard him shouting, mommy, mommy, daddy's home again.
And I heard him shouting, mommy, mommy, daddy's home again. _ _ _
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