John Prine – My Old Man (Guitar)

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I miss my old man tonight

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And I wish he was here with me

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With his corny jokes, and his cheap cigars

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He could look you in the eye, and sell you a car

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That’s not an easy thing to do

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but no one ever knew

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A more charming creature on this earth

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Than my old man

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He was a pilot in the big war

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In the US Army Air Corp

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In a C-47, with a heavy load

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Carrying combat cargo o’er Burma Road

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And after they dropped the bomb

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he came home and married mom

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And not too long after that

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He was my old man

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And oh the fights that we had

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When my brother and me got him mad

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He’d get all boiled up, and start to shout

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We knew what was coming, so we tuned him out

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And now the old man is gone

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and I’d give all I own

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Just to hear what he said, when I wasn’t listing

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To my old man

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I miss my old man tonight

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I can almost see his face

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He was always trying to watch his weight

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His heart only made it to fifty-eight

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For the first time since he died, late last night I cried

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I was wondering when I was gonna go and do that

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For my old man