Misc Originals – Ali Short - Forgotten Parents (Guitar)

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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