Melanie – My Father (Guitar)

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Melanie Safka - My Father ## NOTE: The last verse and Outro are all on the chord G ## INTRO: G C G C G My father always promised us
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We would live in France
We'd go sailing on the Seine
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And I would learn to dance

             A
We lived in Ohio then

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And he worked in the mines

                    G
On his dreams, like boats, we knew 

C                Bb   G
We would sail in time___
All my sisters soon were gone
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To Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams
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The lilacs and the man

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I stayed behind the youngest

                       Dm
And only danced alone

                  G
The colours of my father's dreams

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Faded without a sound
And now I live in Paris
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And my children dance and dream
Hearing the story of a miner's life
   C                   D    Em
In words they've never seen

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I sailed my memories of old

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Like boats across the Seine

                  G
And I watched the Paris sun

C                  Bb    G
Set in my father's eyes again
My father always promised us We would live in France We'd go sailing on the Seine And I would learn to dance OUTRO: (## fade to end ##) La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la