WOOD - Dan Seals (with lyrics) Chords

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His old hands were brown [A] from the varnish and the stain
And [F#] I had come to talk in [B] my youth and in [F#m] my pain
[Bm] I [F#m] told him that I was not [A] the man I wanted to be
[D] And I waited to see what he [B] would say
But [F#m] he just kept [A] on working as if I wasn't there
[F#m] With sweat on his face [B] and dust in his hair
[F#m] He paused for a moment when [A] I'd been there for a while
[D] And white as brown I thought I [B] saw him smile
He [E] just said, wood, _ [A] from the earth beneath our feet there [E] grows a tree
We [A] can take it, [G#m] shave it, [B] with what it's meant to be
[C#m] The stronger [B] the father, [A] the [E] better for the good
[F#m] Son, [E] I believe [A] that men [B] are [E] just like wood
[A] I _ [F#m] _
_ handed him the [A] timber and he laid it on the bench
[F#m] I watched the love and care he [B] took to measure every [F#m] inch
Work it got harder [A] and he'd cut across the grain
[D] He just put more shoulder [E] to the plane
[B] I [F#m] sat there beside him [A] as he carved out every line
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Made a thing of beauty [B] from a rough old piece of pine
[F#m] He seemed to have a vision [A] of what the end would be
[D] I felt as if some pieces [B] had been taken out of me
[E] He said, wood, _ [A] from the earth beneath our feet there [E] grows a tree
And [A] we can take it, [G#m] shave [B] it, with what it's meant to be
[C#m] The stronger [B] the father, [A] the [C#m] better [E] for the good
[F#m] Son, [E] I believe [A] that men [F#m] are [E] just like wood
[C#m] I left a [B] little taller, [A] wiser and free
[C#m] I learned to use some [B] tools [A] for the carpenter in me
[F#m] I don't have all the [B] answers, but there's one thing I have found
[F#m] We are the choices that we make [B] when the [C#] chips are [B] down
[E] _ Wood, _ _ _
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_ [B] _ [F#m] _ he said, the [C#m]
stronger the [B] father, [A] the better [E] for the good
[F#m] Son, I [E] believe that [A]
men [B] are just [E] like wood _
_ [F#m] _ _ Just [E] like wood
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