Chords for James McMurtry - Song For A Deck Hand's Daughter

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_ [G] He'd always whistle [D] jolly blonde [Dm] _ _
[C] on his [F] way out the back [C] door on a Friday night
So many times [G] you just [Dm] stayed gone _
[D] _ [C] Rarely did he try to treat your mama, right?
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] Shut off the [Em] tractor with the field half [D] mowed
[F] _ Set the brake and [C] headed down the road
[G] _ [Am] Came home for [Em] Christmas never said where he'd been [D] with [F] no presents for the children
[Am] only stories for the men
_ _ Still your mama [G] called him [Bm] daddy
[Em] [G] She _ _ never [C] told him no
[G] _ [Am] Said she couldn't [G] help but love him
He [F] _ wondered [G] how it could [Am] be so
_ He'd _ _
_ [C] _ worked two weeks [Dm] out on a river barge
[F] She worked in the factory [C] never missed a day
He'd spend his week off [Dm] holding up the bar
_ [F] Never took him along to drink a [C] deckhands pay
_ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ When off [Em] the river cut the lines on his face
[F] _ Left him dreaming [C] of some other place
_ [Am] _ Maybe Memphis [Em] town or Baton Rouge
[F] When it's cold in Cape [G] Girardeau, [Am] there's nothing much to do
_ Still your mama [G] called him daddy
She _ _ never [C] told him no
[G] _ _ [Am] _ Said she couldn't [G] help but love him
[F] He wondered how it [Am] could be so _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ [Em] _ _ [F] He [C] might not be [Am] coming home at all
_ _ No sides of [Em] him you never knew before [Fm] would be drifting down [C] the river [Am] through another back door
_ _ Still your mama [G] called him daddy
She _ _ couldn't [C] tell him no
[G] _ [Am] Said _ she couldn't [G] help but love him
_ [F] He wondered how it [Am] could be so _ _ _ _ _
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