Ricky Skaggs – My Fathers Son (Guitar)
Capo 4
Key
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Chords
[Intro] (x4)
(G)
[Verse]
G C D My history is no secret, it's written in the stones G C G In the hill beside this river, rest my mother gentle bones G C D And daddy there beside her home a- mong his next of kin G C G And their legacy passed down to me, the sons of mountain men G C D Raised to be a miner by a miners callused hands G C G Passed my youth between these mountains where I grew to under- stand G C D That family was the word of God and faith was its de- mand G C G And life and death, the same came from the coal beneath this land
[Chorus]
D G D G Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must de- fend C G Em But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men G C D If that cup is passed to me to do what must be done G C G When they lay me down remind them I was just my father's son
[Instrumental]
(G) | (G) | (C) | (D) | (G) | (G) | (C) | (G)
[Verse]
G C D I've walked among these people, heard the stories that they tell G C G I've crawled beside them in the mines and touched the walls of hell G C D I've shared their sacred secrets, known their triumph and their pain G C G And right or wrong I'll stand with them on the final judgment day G C D They say God gives his comfort when the time of trouble comes G C G They say we'll own no share of peace till we lay down our guns G C D But will my boy have the chance to do the things I've never done G C G Or will he, like me, be told that he must be his father's son?
[Chorus]
D G D G Well, a rich man writes the book of laws a poor man must de- fend C G Em But the highest laws are written on the hearts of honest men G C D When that cup is passed to me to do what must be done G On a chunk of coal just carve these words, ''I was just my father's son...''