My Old Man Chords by Jerry Jeff Walker

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