F# _ _ _ _
B _ _
D#m _ _ .
C# _ _ _ _
B _ _ _ .
F# He was standing in the rubble
B of an old
F# farmhouse outside Birmingham.
C# _
F# When some on the scene reporter
B stuck a camera
F# in the face of
C# that old man.
He
F# said tell the folks please mister.
What are you gonna do _ .
B Now
F# that this twister
G#m has taken all this dare to you.
D#m The old
C# man just smiled.
Oh, let
B me tell you something.
C# This
F# ain't nothing.
_
C# B He said I lost my daddy.
C# When I was
B eight years
F# old.
That cave in at the Kincaid
G#m mine left a
F# big old hole.
B I lost my baby brother.
C# my best friend in my
B left
F# hand.
In a no-win situation.
G#m in a
B place called
F# Vietnam.
D#m and last year
C# watched my love and
B wife a.
50
F# years west wind I
G#m and I held her
F# hand to her heart of
B gold.
_ _
F# C# So _ _
F# this ain't nothing.
_ _
B He _
F#.
said I learned at an early
B age.
There's things that matter
F# and there's things that don't.
_ So if you waiting here for me to cry
B I.
Hate to disappoint you boy,
C# but I won't.
_
B.
F# Then he reached out in the rubble
E and picked up a photograph _ .
B Wipe the dirt off of it
G#m with the hand that he still
D#m had.
He put
C# it to his lips and he said
B man she was something.
C# But
F# this ain't nothing.
B He said I lost my daddy.
C# When I was
B eight years
F# old.
That cave in at the Kincaid
G#m mine left a
F# big old hole.
B And I lost my baby brother.
C# my best friend in
B my left
F# hand.
In a no-win situation.
B In a place
F# called Vietnam.
D#m And last year I
C# watched my love and
B wife a 50
F# years west wind
G#m I.
We were holding
F# hands with her heart of
B gold.
_ _
C# So _ _
F# this ain't nothing.
B He said this ain't nothing time
F# won't erase.
_
C# B He's.
And this ain't nothing money
C# can replace.
_
D#m He said you said
C# watch your loving
B wife a 50
F# years fighting for
G#m life.
Then you hold her
F# hand to her heart of
B gold stop.
_
C# Yeah, _ well, that's something so
F# this ain't nothing.
_ _
B _ _ .
_
F# This ain't nothing.
_ _
B _ _ _ _ _ _
F# _ _ _ _ .