Chords for Shoeshine Workin' Song - Murray Mclauchlan

_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ A kid came up while I was walking [Gb] down [Fm] the street [Ebm] today
_ _ [Ab] And asked if [Ab] he could shine my shoes for two [Bb] bits worth [Db] of hay
I _ wasn't in no hurry [Gb] and it [Db] wouldn't take [Ebm] too long
But [Ab] as it were, I heard him sing his strange [Db] and mournful song
_ _ Why does daddy drink so much [Ebm] and come home sad and mean?
_ _ [Ab] Why does he just sit there looking [C] at [Bbm] the TV [Db] screen?
_ _ Why does he get sick and cry [Ebm] and blame it all on me?
_ [Ab] _ Why does daddy drink so much and [Db] come home sad and mean? _
_ _ _ _ I asked him where his daddy was, [Gb] his thumb jerked [Ebm] past his ear
He's _ over in the hotel trying to [Db] drown himself in beer
My mom says he's my daddy, [Gb] but he says that he [Ebm] don't know
_ _ [Ab] I don't know why he's like he is, [Fm] I try to [Bb] love [Db] him though
_ _ Why does daddy drink so much [Ebm] and come home sad and mean?
_ _ [Ab] Why does he just sit there looking [Db] at the [Bb] TV [Db]
screen?
_ _ Why does he get sick and cry [Ebm] and blame it all on me?
_ [Ab] Why does daddy drink so much and come [Bb] home sad [Db] and mean?
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well I said I'm no authority _ _ [Gb] on being beaten [F] down
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ But sometimes this old world can drive a [Gb] man right into the ground
_ [Db] _ _ _ Can chain him to his paycheck
If _ [Gb] some boss will give him work [Ebm] _ _ _ or put him in a welfare line
And treat him just [C] like he's dirt
[Eb] When [Db] _ _ _ it dreams that they give a man a gun, _ _ _ [Gb] there's little left but [Db] hate _
[Ebm] _ _ Some [Ab] men are blinded to the truth until [Ab] it's just too late
[Fm] _ _ [Db] _ _
_ Until he finds himself begging with _ [Gb] his hand all [Fm] around his hat
[Ebm] _ _
_ [Ab] Kid, you ask your daddy if he knows a man [Fm] like that
[Eb] _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The kid looked at me funny, _ [Gb] and I gave [Db] him fifty [Ebm] cents
_ [Ab] And he knew as he took it, _ that it [Fm] was [Bbm] already spent
[Db] I _ smiled as he picked up his box, [Gb] the kid he said [Ebm] so long
_ And [Ab] as he left I heard him sing [C] his [Db] shoeshine working song
_ _ Why does daddy drink so much [Ebm] and come home sad and mean?
Why [Ab] _ does he just sit there looking [Fm] at the [Bb] TV [Db] screen? _
_ Why does he get sick and cry [Ebm] and blame it all on me? _ _
[Ab] Why does daddy drink so [C] much and come [Bb] home sad [Gb] and mean? _ _
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