Chords for Vince Gill tells the story about his dad and sings The Key To Life with Lyle Lovettt

[Gm] _ My mom, [F] I love them so much.
My [Bbm] dad's been gone for a long time, but my [D] mom's still [B] around.
She's 89 and last year [N] she had both _ knees replaced.
Total knee replacements last year [Bb] at 89.
That's [Eb] pretty cool. _
[Ebm] She said she wore them [Ab] out from kicking my ass.
[Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ _ It [G] _
[Eb] makes a huge difference, doesn't it, when your parents are [Bb] supportive and they know?
We both obviously started when we were very, very young.
[G] Like I said, I was making records and playing out and doing all that stuff while I [C] was still in high [Ebm] school.
[Bb] I knew [Ab] what I was going to do [Bbm] and college was never really an [Cm] option. _
My [Gm] folks never did sit me down and say, [Cm] no, you've got to get a real [N] job.
You've got to go [C] do the thing that everybody else does.
[Ab] It was [Eb] really neat.
I asked my mom one [Bb] day, I said, why were you so _ _ supportive?
She said, I wanted a happy kid.
I didn't want a rich kid. _ _ _ _
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My [Fm] daddy, I [Ab] talked about him [Bb] earlier, he was pretty old school.
[Fm] _ He [C] was great.
He was a big man.
He was about 6'3", weighed 300 pounds.
He smoked all the time.
He always had a cigarette going.
He would say _ _ [B] stuff like, don't let me come over [N] there. _ _ _ _
I'll give you something to cry about.
[E] _ _ [Eb] _
[Bb] _ He was a [Bm] giant of a man.
[E] He would go to work [Ebm] in a suit and tie.
[G] They'd come home and be that [Em] redneck that I always knew he was.
He'd put on overalls with no shirt and a ball cap, a cap diesel powered ball [Cm] cap, work boots [G] and cigarettes in every pocket of his overalls.
[B] He had [N] about 14 buckets in his _ [Ebm] overalls.
_ [Bb] _
There's a million of me.
He always had cigarettes [N] in every pocket so he could always have that cigarette going and blow it in my face. _ _ _ _
[Eb] Anyway, _ [Ab] I was young.
[Bb] _
He came to [C] me and he said, son, _ [Em] I [C] noticed you've been enjoying the [N] music pretty good.
I said, yeah.
I remember Bob playing his guitar, Daddy.
He said, well, I like [C] seeing that.
I said, I also noticed you've taken [D] quite a shine to the [E] ladies.
_ [C] I said, oh yeah, I like those girls, Dad.
He said, that's great news.
[N] I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ said, _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ what would you think if I was like, how would you like to maybe have a little [N] fold of money put in your pocket?
Maybe take one of them pretty girls out for a cheeseburger or something.
_ I said, man, that'd be awesome, Dad.
I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.
He said, no problem.
Get a job. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] I wasn't lying [Bb] about my age.
He got me a job at a [Eb] little pizza parlor down the street.
[G] Made pizzas [Ab] every night till midnight.
[Cm] Every now and then the phone would ring about 30 [C] minutes before we'd close.
And _ I'd hear this, hey son, is [F] that you?
I'd say, yeah, [D] Daddy, it's me.
What's up?
[N] He'd say, do me a favor.
Screw up a couple on purpose and bring them home with you.
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[Fm] Okay, [Bb] so _ I'm making these big ol' [C] pepperoni [Cm] pizzas, you know, [F] coming out of the oven hot.
And [Em] man, I put them on the oven and the manager would come up, it'd be time to [E] close.
He'd look up there and he'd go, whose pizzas are these?
I said, I don't know, some guy called and ordered them a while back.
He never [Eb] came to get them.
He said, well, do whatever you want to with them.
[C] Eh, I might take them all or something, I don't know. _ _
[Abm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ I still [B] see a [Bb] therapist about the images of [E] my father in his underwear.
[Eb]
Can't you tell you're a little bit more pleasant?
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [N] _ _ _
[Eb] _ He's _ a dad.
_ [N] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] Anyway, [Bb] I wrote this song about Lenny and_
No, [Em] I won't. _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
[Em] Sorry.
_ [Eb] _ It's okay.
[Ab] [Bb] Just know, _ nobody minds.
_ [Eb] You're having fun, that's all that [Bbm] matters.
_ [C] But, uh_
Mine never mattered.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
You got shots.
_ _ _ [Ab] I didn't do it.
_ _ [Eb] _ I was [Bb] about to, though. _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ I'd love to hear my daddy play [Ab] once again
_ [Bb]
All [Eb] the songs that he taught me [Bb] when I was a kid
_ _ [Eb] John Henry, Old Shell, The [Ab] Fate of Love
I [Eb] fall to pieces [Bb] and all the ways [Eb] of the dust
_ _ Just a few chords on the banjo and [Ab] that was all he [Bb] knew _
[Eb] In the eyes of a child, man [Bb] his fingers flew
_ I _ [Eb] practiced and I practiced till [Ab] I got it right
[Bb] I [Eb] _ packed up [Bb] everything I [Eb] just took off on
I _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ made it from the beer joints to the opera [Ab] [Eb] stage _
He said the only difference is [Bb] what you get paid
_ He [Eb] didn't care that everybody knew [Ab] my name
[Bb] _ [Eb]
He said it's all [Bb] for nothing if you [Eb] don't stay the same
_ _ When he died, the preacher cried and said
He's [Ab] the lucky one, _ [Eb]
he's walking hand in hand
With [Bb] God's only son
_ _ [Eb] My faith, common sense, tell me the preacher's right
_ I'd love to hear the [Bb] banjo ring [Eb] for me tonight
_ I will honor [Bb] my father [Eb] with these words I write down
And as [Bb] long as I remember [Eb] him, he'll always be [Bb] around
_ Man, _ [Eb] the pain of losing him cuts like a [Ab] randall knife
[Eb] I learned a few chords on the [Bb] banjo
[Eb] It was the key to life
_ _ Yeah, the pain of losing him [Ab] cuts like a randall knife
[Eb] I learned a few chords on [Bb] the banjo
It was [Eb] the key to life _ _ _ _ _
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