My Old Man Chords by Jerry Jeff Walker

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_ _ _ _ My [G] old man, he [Dm] had a rounder soul _ He'd [G] _ _ [Em] hear an [G] old freight train _ [C] _ that he'd have to roll _
He _ _ said he'd [G] been blessed _ [Dm] with a gypsy _ bone _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] That's [G] the reason _ I [C] guess that he'd been cursed to roam _
_ _ _ He came through [G] town back [F] before the _ [Dm] war _
_ [G] _ _ [Em] He didn't [G] even know what it was [C] he was looking for _
He _ _ carried a [G] tattered bag full [F] of his violin _ _ _ [G] It _ [Em] was full of [G] lots of songs of [C] all the places he'd ever been
He _ _ _ _ [G] talked real easy, [F] he had a smiling [Dm] way _ _ [G] He _ [Em] could pass [G] along to you [C] _ when his fiddle played
_ He was making [G] people _ drop their [F] cares and woe _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Em] Hum out [G] aloud the tunes [C] of his fiddle bow
_ _ _ The people [G] there began [F] to join that _ sound _ _ [G] _ And everyone in town was laughing [C] and singing, dancing round
_ _ Like the [G] fiddler's tunes were all they [F] heard that night _ As [G] _ _ if some dream said [C] that all the world is right
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_ _ _ _ fiddler's [G] eye, he [Dm] caught a lady there _ [G] She _ [G] _ _ _ had that rolling, [C] flowing, _ dangling kind of hair
_ He _ played [G] for her as if [F] she danced alone _ [Dm] He [G] _ _ _ [Em] played [G] his favorite songs, [C] the ones he called his own _
_ _ _ _ She [G] alone was [Dm] dancing [F] in her room _ [Dm] _
_ _ [G] _ The only thing left [C] moving were the fiddle _ tunes
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_ _ _ _ played [G] until she was [F] the last to go He _ _ [G] _ _ stopped and packed his case and [C] _ said he'd take her home _
_ _ _ And all the nights [G] that passed, [F] a child was born _ [Dm] And [G] _ _ all the years that passed, [C] their love would keep them warm
_ And _ _ [G] all their lives they [Dm] shared, a dream come [Am] true _
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ All because she danced [C] so well, the fiddle tune
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_ _ _ _ But the train [Em] next morning, [C] she [F] blew a lonesome sound _ [G] As _ _ if she sang the blues [C] of what she took from town
_ And _ all that [G] I recall, [F] he said when I was young _ Was [G] _ _ _ no one else could play [C] or sing the songs he sung _ _ _ _ _ _
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