Misc Musicals – In The Heights - Inútil (Guitar)

C
   This isn't happening

 C/A
Inútil! Useless.

C
  Just like my father was before me:

 C/A
Inútil. Useless.

C
  And every day he cut the cane

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    He came home late and prayed for rain

           C/G
Prayed for rain

C
And on the days when nothing came

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   My father's face was lined with shame

    C/Ab           C/G
He'd sit me down beside him and he'd say:

F                  G
  My father was a farmer

G                 Am
His father was a farmer

                   C
And you will be a farmer

C
But I told him

F                           G
"Papi, I'm sorry I'm going farther"

G                 Abaug
"I'm getting on a plane

                            Bb
"And I am gonna change the world some day!"

                  C
And he slapped my face

C/D
    He stood there staring at me

C/A         G
    Useless

C
Today

C/D
    My daughter's home and I am

Am        Gsus4  G
   Useless

C                  C/D
And as a baby she amazed

C/D                                 C/A  G
Me with the things she learned each day

C
  She used to stay on the fire escape

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    While all the other kids would play

   C/Ab            C/G
And I would stand beside her and I'd say

F                     G
I'm proud to be your father

G                      Am
Cuz' you work so much harder

Am                    C
And you are so much smarter

C
Than I was at your age

F
  And I always knew

G
  That she would fly away

Abaug
      That she was gonna change the

Fmaj7/Bb      Am
World    some day

       Am
I will not

       Am/C
Be the reason

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That my family can't succeed

       Am
I will do

        Am/C
What it takes

             Am/F            Am/E
They'll have everything they need

          Am
Or all my work

       Am/C
All my life

      Am/D      Am/E
Everything I've sacrificed

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Will have been

Am Am/C C/F  Am
Useless