Emmylou Harris – My Fathers House (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 05:12:27 +0000 (GMT) From: [email protected] (Rick L) Subject: CRD: My Fathers's House Emmylou Harris Chords/Lyrics Emmylou Harris My Father's House by Bruce Springsteen Frank Reckard guitar Steve Fishell steel guitar Don Johnson piano Mike Bowden bass Steve Turner drums

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Last night I dreamed that I was a child

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Out Where the pines grow wild and tall

      C#        F#                          C#
I was trying to make it home through the forest

              G#    C#
Before the darkness falls

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I heard the wind rustling through the trees

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And ghostly voices rose from the fields

                    C#       F#               C#
I ran with my heart pounding down that broken path

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With the devil snappin' at my heels

                                F#          C#
I broke through the trees, and there in the night

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My father's house stood shining hard and bright

                 C#       F#                               C#
The branches and brambles tore my clothes and scratched my arms

                       G#             C#
But I ran till I fell, shaking in his arms

SOLO

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I awoke and I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart

                                                 G#
Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts

      C#                   F#          C#
I got dressed, and to that house I did ride from out on the road,

             G#                    C#
I could see his windows shining in light

                C#        F#           C#
I walked up the steps and stood on the porch

C#
A woman I didn't recognize

                                       G#
Came and spoke to me through a chained door

              C#         F#           C#
I told her my story, and who I'd come for

                                           G#                  C#
She said "I'm sorry but but no one by that name lives here anymore

SOLO

C#                       F#       C#
My father's house shines hard and bright

C#                                        G#
it stands like a beacon calling me in the night

            C#          F#        C#
Calling and calling, so cold and alone

                                               G#            C#
Shining `cross this dark highway where all our sins lie unatoned

From Emmylou Harris "Thirteen" Warner Brothers Records 1986