Chords for Guy Clark - "Randall Knife" [Live from Austin, TX]

It's called a Randall knife. _
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My father had a Randall [B] knife,
[Em] my mother gave it to him _
_ _ [A] _ when he went off to World War II
[Em] to save us all [D] from ruin. _ _ _
_ _ _ Now, if you've ever held a Randall knife,
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[Em] you know my father well. _
_ [A] _ If a better blade was ever made,
[Em] it was probably [A] forged in hell.
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My father was a good man. _
[Em] There was a lawyer by his [G] trade,
[A] _ and only once did I ever see
[Em] him misuse the [A] blade.
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Well, it almost cut his thumb [B] off _
[Em] when he took it for a tool. _
_ [A] The knife was made for darker things.
[Em] It could not bend [A] the rules.
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Well, they let me take it camping [B] once _
[Em] on a Boy Scout _ jamboree.
[A] I _ _ broke a half an inch off
[Em] trying to stick it [D] in a tree. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well, I hid it from him for a while,
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[Em] but the knife and he were one,
_ [A] _ and he put it in his bottom drawer
_ [Em] without a hard [A] word one.
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There it slept, and there it stayed
[G] _ for twenty-some odd years,
_ _ [A] sort of like Excalibur,
_ _ [Em] except waiting for a [D] tear. _ _
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[D] _ My father died when I was [A] forty,
_ [Em] and I couldn't find a way to cry.
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Not because I didn't love him, _ _
[Em] not because he [D] didn't try.
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Well, I'd cried for every lesser thing,
_ [E] for _ [G] whiskey, pain, and beauty,
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but he deserved a better tear,
_ [Em] and I was [D] not quite ready. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So we took his ashes out to sea,
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poured them off the stern, _ _
[A] and in through the roses in the wake
_ of [Em] everything we'd learned.
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_ _ _ And when we got back to the house,
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[Em] they asked me what I wanted, _ _
[A] _ not the law books, not the watch.
I need the thing [D] he's haunted. _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ Oh, my hand burned [D] for the randall knife
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[E] there in the bottom drawer, _
_ [A] and I found a tear for my father's life
[G] and [B] all [D] that it stood for. _ _
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_ _ Thank you very much. _
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