John Denver – My Old Man (Guitar)

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My old man had a rounder's soul

He'd hear an old freight train

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Then he'd have to go

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Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone

That's the reason they guessed

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He'd been cursed to roam

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Came into town back before the war

Didn't even know what it was

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He was looking for

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Carried a tattered bag for his violin

It was full of lots of songs

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Of places that he'd been

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He talked real eeaassy, had a smiling way

To pass along to you

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When his fiddle played

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Making people drop their cares and woes

To hum out loud those tunes

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That his fiddle howled

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Till the people there began to join that sound

And everyone in town was laughing

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Singing, dancing round

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Like the fiddler's tune

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Was all they heard that night

As if some dream said

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"All the world is right"

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His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there

She had that rollin', flowin'

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Golden kind of hair

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He played for her as if she danced alone

Played his favorite songs

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Ones he called his own

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He played until she was the last to go

Stopped and packed his case

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And said he'd take her home

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All the nights that passed a child was born

All the years that passed

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That love would keep them warm

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All their lives they'd share a dream come true

All because she danced

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While his fiddle tuned

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My old man had a rounder's soul

He'd hear an old freight train

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Then he'd have to go

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All that I recall said when I was so young

There's no one else could really

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Sing those songs he sung