My Daddy Never Was Chords by Randy Travis

[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [B] My boss will tell you that I've been [F#] to work all week on time,
[E] and I ain't had no liquor [B] on my breath.
_ _ Ain't no kind of secret, [F#] I've been known to take a drink,
[E] and it's made me do some things that [F#] I regret.
_ [E] Well, old Redda said this ain't no [F#] kind of way to raise a family,
[C#m] and one night she called her quips and [F#] called her cab.
_ [E] She left the clothes out on the clothesline [F#] and the dishes in the sink,
[E] so I guess she knows that she ain't [F#] coming back.
But I [B] just wanna see my kids, I [F#] just wanna hold my girls.
[C#] Heaven [B] knows I ain't got much or [F#] nothing else in this old world.
[B] I just wanna be around [F#] enough to know that they've been loved.
I [B] just wanna be their daddy, _ [F#] _
but my daddy [B] never was.
_ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [B] Now lately she's been knowing this [F#] old boy [D#m] she met in [F#] church,
[E] and I can't say she's wrong for one [F#] more. _
I [B] gave him the right to tell my [F#] wife that I can't come around.
[E] Tonight I knocked a hole in her [F#] front door,
_ [C#m] and old Redda took [E] my keys [F#] and she made me wait outside.
[C#m] But she didn't call the law, she called [F#] the cab.
_ [C#m] And as [E] I pulled away, I [F#] saw something in her eyes,
[E] so I reckon that she knows I ain't [F#] so bad. _
But I [B] just wanna see my kids, I [F#] just wanna hold my girls.
[E] Heaven knows I ain't got [B] much or [F#] nothing else in this old world.
I [B] just wanna be around enough [F#] to know that they've been loved.
I [E] just wanna be their daddy, [B] _ [F#] but my daddy never [B] was.
_ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [G#m] _ [F#] _ _
_ [B] My boss will tell you that I've been [F#] to work all week on time,
[E] and I ain't had no liquor [F#] on my bread.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [B] _ [E] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _
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