Chords for DAVID MEECE - "My Father's Chair", from his CD, "Once in a Lifetime."

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_ [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [F] Sometimes [C] at night _ I'd lie [Dm] _
awake [F] _ longing [Am] inside for [Bb] my _ [Dm] father's embrace.
[F] _ Sometimes [C] at night _ [Gm] I'd wander [Dm] _ downstairs [F] and pray [Am] he'd return, _ [Bb] but no [E] one was [Dm] there.
_ _ [Bb]
Oh, how I [Dm] cried, [Gm] a child all [Dm] alone, _ [Gm]
waiting [F] for [Bb] him to [C] come home.
_ _ [Am] My [C]
[F] father's chair _ [C] _ sat [Dm] in an empty room, [C] my [F] father's chair [C] _ covered [Dm] with sheets of [C] blue.
My [F] father's chair, [C] through [Bb] all [F] the years [Bb] and _ [F] all the tears, [A] I cried in [Dm] vain, [Gm] but [D] no [Gm] one was [F] there in my [C] _ father's [F] chair.
_ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ [F] _ Sometimes [C] at night I sit all [Dm] alone, _ [F] drifting [Am] asleep _ [Gm] in a chair [Bb] of [Dm] my own.
[F] When sweet [C] sleepy _ eyes [Gm] peer down from the [Dm] hall, _ _ [F] frightened by [Am] dreams [Bb] they cannot [Dm] recall.
_ [Bb] Holding them [Dm] close, [Gm] _ calming [Dm] their fears, [Gm] praying [F] they [Bb] always will [C] say, _
_ My [F] father's chair [C] _ sits [Dm] in a loving room, [C] my [F] father's chair _
[C] no matter [Dm] what I do.
[C] My [F] father's chair, through [Bb] all [F] the years [Bb] and all the [F] tears, _ [A] I need [Dm] not fear.
[Gm] _ [D] Love's [Gm] [F] always there in my [C] _ father's [F] chair.
_ [C] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
Sometimes [D] at night I dream [Em] of a throne, _ [G] my [Bm] loving God [C] _
calling [Em] me home.
And [G] as I [D] appear, [Am] he rises [Em] and smiles, [G] and preaches [Bm] with love _ [C] about [Em] his child.
[C] _ Never [Em] to cry, _ [C] _ [Am] never [Em] to fear, _ [Am] in his [G] arms safe and [D] secure. _
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[G] My father's chair _
[D] sits in [Em] a royal [D] room, my [G] father's chair [Bm] holds glory [Em] beyond the tomb.
[D] [G] My father's chair, [C] my God [Bm] is [G] there, [C] and I [G] am _ [B] his eternal [Em] _ heir.
_ [Am] _ _ [E] [Am] Someday [G] I'll share _ [C] my _ _
[D] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[B] _ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _
[C] _ [D] father's chair.
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[Am] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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