Misc Originals – Ali Short - Forgotten Parents (Guitar)
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Chords
Finger Picking the First Verse
Hammer On the Am and C Chords
(Talk The First Two Lines)
Am F G C x2
Am F Forgotten Fathers Of The World Unite G C Our Kids Have Grown apart From us Do We Give Up The Fight? Am F We Sit Alone In Our dingy Flats G C Looking Out The Windows and Wondering Where Its At?
Start Strumming
Am F Where Did We go Wrong To Make Them Not Care? G C I Understand That Their time to them Is more precious to be fair Am F We watch from afar,and hear at Third hand G C How their Lives are evolving Quicker Than We Understand
Am F G C
(Key Change)
F G But It’s Hard To take in that when we were A couple C Am The Children would come round for a Birthday chuckle F G All that has disappeared in less than 2 years C Am I sit alone now to contemplate the next 20 Years
Am - (hammmer on to) Asus4 - Am x3
E - Esus2 - E x2
[Chorus 1]
Am F Forgotten Fathers Of The World Unite G C We Are Still Living and breathing and Have Not given Up the Fight Am F All Love and Feeling Was Gone In A Flash G C Maybe the Love we Installed wasn’t Meant to Last
Am -(hammmer on to) Asus4 - Am x3
E - Esus2 - E x2
Am F A Lonely Mother’s Plight is Worse to be Fair G C After all She Brought Them into Being There Am F After Years Of Nappies, Feeding and Teaching G C Her Young All Grown Up Their Separate Ways The’re A Needing
[Chorus 2]
Am F Forgotten Mothers Of The World Unite G C We Are Still Living and breathing and Have Not given Up the Fight Am F All Love and Feeling Was Gone In A Flash G C Maybe the Love we Installed wasn’t Meant to Last
Am - (hammmer on to) Asus4 - Am x3
E - Esus2 - E x2
Am F And then into the Twilight Years Just Waiting For Death G C Memories are All we have Until we Draw Our last Breath Am F I Don’t want to be Depressing by Singing this Song G C But to open Our Eyes and Change what went wrong
(Key Change)
F G Life is to Short to dwell on the past C Am Mistakes have been Made, So let’s Make Them Our Last F G Life Is for The Living the here And the now C Am Enjoy each Moment to the Max somehow
Am - (hammmer on to) Asus4 - Am x3
E - Esus2 - E x2
[Chorus 3]
Am F Forgotten Parents Of The World Unite G C We Are Still Living and breathing and Have Not given Up the Fight Am F All Love and Feeling Was Gone In A Flash G C Maybe the Love we Installed wasn’t Meant to Last
(Last Verse Slowed Down Finger Picking Style)
Am F So Sorry to the Children Who Have Their own Lives G C Because I may not be around when they decide Am F When the time is right to Visit their Dad G C Because when I’m Dead It's Too Late to Feel Sad