Kate Wolf – I Never Knew My Father (Guitar)

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It was twenty-five years ago when I began my life

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The second child of a woman who tried hard to raise us right

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She married a man when I was just a babe

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Who treated me just like his own, even giving me his name

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I never knew my father, I only knew his name

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I never knew the way he moved

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How he talked, or what he said

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Now I'm grown and mama says,

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"You're like your daddy, just the same" 

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Sometimes I got to wondering, about this man I never knew

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When I'd find myself into something, just the way he used to do  

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Heard stories all my life of how he loved to sing  

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And how he would take apart and fix most anything

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I never knew my father, I only knew his name

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I never knew the way he moved

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How he talked, or what he said

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Now I'm grown and mama says,

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"You're like your daddy, just the same" 

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I can't say, that I don't care that he died before I was born  

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I get to asking why he did, and I'll probably ask some more

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My life's been good and I can't say that I've had it bad  

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But now I'm seeing years that my dad never had

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I never knew my father, I only knew his name

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I never knew the way he moved

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How he talked, or what he said

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Now I'm grown and my mama says,

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"You're like your daddy, just the same"