Chords for Keith Whitley - Daddy Loved Trains

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_ _ Daddy [G] didn't see me [A] take my first steps [D] as a child
[G] The railroad [D] had him hauling [Em] cows through Texas at [A] the time
[A] _ [D] The night I [G] kicked the field goal [A] at the big [D] homecoming game
_ [G] Dad was kicking hobos off another damned [A] old train
Mama [D] _
[G] did her best to do [A] it all when Dad [D] was gone
[G] And every night [D] she'd swear he'd [Em] really rather be [A] at home _
[D] Sometimes we'd [G] believe her till [A] we'd look in [D] Daddy's eyes
[G] He had that faraway look that he never could [A] _
disguise
_ [G] Mama loved Daddy but Daddy [A] loved trains
[G] Steel rails controlled him like whiskey in [A] his brain
_ _ [D] Number [G] two diesel [A] fuel flowed through [D] his veins
[G] Mama [D] loved Daddy [A] but Daddy [G] loved trains _ _
_ _ [D] _ Now that I've [G] grown older there's [A] some things I [D] understand
_ [G] Take a special [D] person [Em] to love that [A] kind of man
_ [D] In ways I guess [G] I'm different [A] but in ways I'm just [D] the same
[G] I wanna love somebody like my Daddy loved [A] those trains _
[G] Mama loved Daddy but Daddy [A] loved trains
_ [G] Steel rails controlled him like whiskey in [A] his brain
_ [D] Number [G] two diesel [A] fuel flowed through [D] his veins
[G] Mama [D] loved Daddy [A] but Daddy [D] loved trains
_ _ [G] Mama loved Daddy but Daddy [A] loved trains _
[G] Steel rails controlled him like whiskey in [A] his brain
_ [D] Number [G] two diesel [A] fuel flowed [Bm] through his veins
[G] Mama [D] loved Daddy [A] but Daddy [G] loved trains _ _ _ _ _ _
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