Chuck Berry – Dear Dad (Guitar)

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Dear Dad, don't get mad, what I'm asking for

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Is by the next semester can I get another car?

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This one here is sickning on a wide dual road

  G N.C.
I might as well be walking as to drive this old Ford

Cm
Almost every time I try to go and pass a truck

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If I ain't going downhill, Dad, I'm, out of luck

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And even if I get by it's still a rugged risk

    G N.C.
The way this old Ford keep a hitting and a miss

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Last week when I was driving on my way to school

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I almost got a ticket about a freeway traffic rule

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It's now a violation driving under forty-five

    G N.C.
And if I push to fifty this here Ford will nosedive

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Dad, I'm in great danger out here trying to drive

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The way this Ford wiggles when I'm approaching forty-five

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I have to nurse it along like a little stubborn pup

    G N.C.
And cars whizzing by me, Dad, look like I'm backing up

    Cm
She just don't have the appetite for gas somehow

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And Dad, I got four carburetors hooked up on it now

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I tried to hook another to see if it'd do a little good

   G N.C.
But ain't no place to put it unless I perforate the hood

   Cm
So Dad, send the money, see what I can see

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Try to find a Cadillac, a sixty-two or three

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Just something that won't worry us to keep it on the road

   G N.C.                                 Cm
Sincerely, your beloved son, Henry Junior Ford