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Father And Friend

Alain Clark

RockAdvanced for beginners17 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

BbDiagram coming soon
Cm7Diagram coming soon
EbDiagram coming soon
Fsus4Diagram coming soon
F
Eb9Diagram coming soon
Em7
Am7×
Ab6Diagram coming soon
AbDiagram coming soon
Gsus4Diagram coming soon
G
C×
D××
Asus4Diagram coming soon
A×
E

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Bb    Cm7    Eb   Fsus4   F 
Bb    Cm7    Eb   Fsus4   F 
 
      Bb          Cm7          Eb             F 
O Papa sit down and hear my song 
      Bb               Cm7            Eb                F 
O and if you feel like it then please sing along 
        Bb               Cm7               Eb                F 
No nothing that I wanna say, I haven't said before 
         Bb            Cm7                  Eb               F 
But to use your words, you can never be to sure 
                 Eb9                              F 
See, even though I don't always show 
                                      Bb         Cm7       Eb        F 
I'm glad that you're around 
                                      Bb         Cm7       Eb        F 
I say I'm glad that you around 
 
       Bb           Cm7         Eb            F 
O sonny, so strange, to hear and see 
          Bb             Cm7        Eb             F 
that someone so different is a soul like me 
       Bb                    Cm7                Eb                     F 
You may have gone right, where I would have gone left 
       Bb             Cm7             Eb                      F 
But son, that's alright, I will always have your back 
                  Eb9                             F 
See even though I don't always show 
                                           Bb        Cm7     Eb        F 
I'm proud that you?re my son 
 
       Em7        Am7/5-            Ab6       Ab           Gsus4   G 
Old days and all of the new wanting to be like you 
 
C                              D 
Every time I look at you  
              F 
I see myself 
              C/G      G 
 I'm so proud of you 
        C                                     D 
For you help make me what I am 
                 F 
 A better man  
                    F 
 I'm just so proud of you 
 
        Bb                 Cm7               Eb                     F 
O dad, your views in life tell me how they came to be 
                  Bb                    Cm7               Eb                       F 
Well see, I didn't know my father like the way that you know me 
          Bb                Cm7              Eb                F 
Son, life is just too short for us to never be in touch 
        Bb                      Cm7             Eb                   F 
O that's why I Wanna tell you that I love you very much 
            Eb9                            Ab 
Even though, I don't always show 
               Gsus4          G 
You know                 ooh     and I want you to know that 
 
C                             D 
Every time I look at you 
          F 
I see myself 
                   C/G      G 
And I'm so proud of you 
        C                                     D 
For you help make me what I am 
                F 
A better man 
                    F 
I'm just so proud of you 
 
      Em7           Am7/5-       Ab6           Gsus4        Asus4      A 
I'm here and I'll be if I can a father and a friend 
 
D           E 
Oooh  
G           A   // 
---------------   Every time I look at you 
 
D                              E 
Every time I look at you 
             G 
I see myself 
                    D/A      A 
And I'm so proud of you 
        D                                    E 
For you help make me what I am  
                        G 
A son and a friend 
                   D/A       A 
 I'm just so proud of you 
 
 D                                           E 
You know that one day too,  I'll be walking in your shoes 
 G                                               A 
And I'll know that you'll do fine, cause you're a son of mine 
          D                                                         E 
O, dear papa tell me what you've learned, so that I don't get my fingers burned 
          G                                      A 
Son you'll see that as you go, you'll make mistakes of your own 
           D                                E 
But that's ok man, see you live and you learn 
      G                                   G 
You live and you learn  
 
D      E       G    A     
D      E       G    A 
D 
          
 

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Chord set

Bb · Cm7 · Eb · Fsus4 · F · Eb9 · Em7 · Am7 · Ab6 · Ab · Gsus4 · G · C · D · Asus4 · A · E

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.