Chords for Patches (Chairmen of the Board-Live, Concord, NC,1997)

[A#] You're in [C#] there, see?
Tell you what I'm gonna do.
[D#] I hate doing this, cause I got to stand still.
That wind [E] blowing up here. _
What [D] I'm gonna do is I'm gonna [C#m] do about a [D] moving one.
Sing a little song I wrote [C#] a while back.
[B] _ For you.
_ [C#] We're gonna sing a little [A#m] song I wrote a while back.
Bring [B] it on.
_ Ooooo _ _ _ _
[D#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ooooo
[A] _ [E] Ooooo Ooooo
[A] _ _ [B] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ I was born and [D#m] raised
down in Alabama.
_ _ _ On [A] a farm
way back [F#] up in the woods.
Y'all are [B] so ragged folks [E] used to call me Patton.
[G#] I used to tease [D#] him out of the down [C#] inside of the curtains of the [F#] dungeon.
But I grew up a great old man.
_ [E] I can see him with his
shovel in his hand.
[F#] See, _ education that he never [E] had.
He did wonders when the
time had got [F#] bad.
But the little money from the crops we [E] raised.
Now they pay the bills we made.
[B] He's old like
_ down [D] to the ground.
And [E] when he tried to get up, [B] life would kick him back down.
And that day, Papa called [D] me to his dying bed.
[E] He takes his hand on the [B] shoulder and the tears
he said as he passes.
_ I'm depending on [D#m] you son
_ to pull my [A] family through.
_ [F#]
My [B] son is all [E] that
I'm _
[C#m] _ _ [E] to [G#] _ you.
[C#] _
_ _ _ [F#] Two days later
Papa passed away.
[E] And I became a man
that day [F#] so.
I told my heart I wanted to quit school.
[E] But she said that was Daddy's
strictest rule [F#] so.
Every morning before I went to school
[E] I fed the chickens and I
chopped [D#] through the news [B] on lines.
I felt [D] like a good boy.
_ [E] I wanted to leave and run
[B] away from home.
And [Bm] I remember [D] what
Daddy said [E] with a tear in his eye
[B] from his dying bed.
He said, cousin,
I'm [E] depending [B] on [D#m] you son. _
I try [D#] to do [A] my best.
It's [F#] up to _ [B] _ [D#] you _
[C#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [G#] to do [C#m] _ [B] the rest. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D#] _ One day a
strong rain [F#] came.
Washed all the [B] crops away.
And at [C#] the age of 13 I felt like I was
carrying away the [C#m] whole world.
_ [F#] See, every day I had to
work in the [E] fields.
But that's the only way we got our meals.
[F#] See, I was the
oldest of the family.
_ [E] And everybody else depended
on me.
[F#] _ Every night
I heard my mama pray.
[E] Lord, give him strength.
Today's a new day.
[B] Years have
passed.
[D] _
Everybody's grown.
_ [E] My mama is resting in her
[B] brand new home.
My nose
is full of [D] sweat and tears.
[E] And my daddy's voice
is [B] through the years.
He said, cousin,
I'm depending [F#] on
[D#m] you son. _ _
Pull
[D#] my [A] family through. _
[F#] My son is all
[E] that I [D#] _
_ [C#m] am. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ I'm _
depending
_ [D#m] I'm depending on _ you.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[F#] I'm depending _ [D#m] on you.
I'm depending on [E] you.
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] My daddy
had been sick.
_ _ He [D#m] said
my daddy had been sick for a long time, flat on his [C#m] back.
_ _ Every [Em] evening after we
finished our [B] chores [E] and had
some [D#m] dinner, everybody in the whole family
would [D#] go rushing into [G#] Papa's room
[C#m] to try to make him feel a little
better. _
Now this [F#] day, we're all
gathered in Daddy's room, he's feeling pretty good.
_ When all of a sudden
_ _ Papa got [A#] that pain in his [B] chest again.
_ Pain was too [A#] young to understand.
[E] See, my daddy was suffering trouble with his heart.
_ [C#] Now, my mama [A#m] rushed all of us out of the room into the hallway,
_ and she stayed in the room with Papa for about [B] 15, 20 minutes.
Then I heard mama [F#] calling out to me, _
_ [D#m] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
[F#] Ratches!
Ratches, son, you better [B] come on in or your daddy won't see you. _
I [Em] went right into my papa's room, and there [Gm] he lay there,
_ [B] [G] lay in the bed with [B] tears [A#] in his [B] eyes.
[A#m] Ain't never seen my daddy cry.
He put his hand [C#] on my shoulder and he said,
_ [A] _ _ _
_ _ Ratches, [E] boy, the hammer, _ the hammer of life done beat your poor daddy down to the ground.
[C#] And son, I [B] ain't got nobody to help your mama with the youngins.
_ So boy, [A#] I need you to promise me [A#m] you're going to help your mama as much as [A] you can.
_ _ Because your daddy, [C] _ son, your daddy ain't [E] got long to be here with you.
_ [F#] Now, when he said that, I said, Paul, I'm going to do my best.
Man, [B] I was going to do my best, [F#] but little did I know back then like I know now.
You see, ever since I made that promise,
[G] every day of my life I have to keep on trying to climb [E] life's mountain.
_ [A#] Every day of my life I'm trying to climb life's mountain.
[F#] And just to tell somebody, I don't know what I'm talking about,
every day of [A#] our lives, [F#] me, you, _ [E] you, and I,
every day of [A#] our lives we try to climb life's [G#m] mountain. _ _
[F#] Everybody's searching for a top.
[B] _ _ [Gm] I said, _ everybody's [F#] searching for a top.
[D#] _
Well, we [Gm] all know [D#] there ain't [B] no top.
[F#]
And sometimes you [D] do get a [D#] little tired.
Don't know what you do, but [E] every time I feel like I can't sing that [D#] song, can't write that song,
can't live [B] my life like I want to live it, my mind goes back to that day and I see them tears in my daddy's eyes.
But most of [D] all, to this day, just like it was yesterday, _ [A#] I [B] remember them [Em] words, practice.
[G#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] Practice, boy, I'm depending on [B] you.
_ _ _ [D#] For [D#m] God's sake, son, for God's sake, _ [F#] please [E] pull my family through.
Every time I feel like I can't climb [G#] life's mountain, I hear [C#] daddy's voice up [C#m] there saying,
_ [B] _ _ _ I'm depending on [D#m] you, son.
_ _ [D#] _
Pull my family _ [F#m] _ _ through.
_ [E] It's [D#] all in [C#m] the view.
[B] Even right now, [A#] while I sing the [C#m] song, his voice said,
[B] _ _ _ [E] I'm depending [B] on [D#m] you, son.
_ I try to do [A] my best.
[F#] It's up [F#m] to _ [B] _ _ you.
[C#m] _ _
I'm [G#] depending on _ [C#] you.
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