My Daddy Never Was

	  		 
 

Intro: G  Bm  C  D 

Verse 

   G                                  Bm 
My boss'll tell you that I've been to work all week on time 
    C                           G 
And I ain't had no liquor on my breath 
G                                 Bm 
Ain't no kind of secret I've been known to take a drink 
         C                              D 
And it's made me do some things that I regret 
 C                                 G 
Loretta said this ain't no kind of way to raise a family 
        C                                      D 
And one night she called it quits and called a cab 
             C                                       G 
She left the clothes out on the clothes line and the dishes in the sink 
     C                                     D 
So I guess she knows that she ain't comin' back 

 
           G                         Bm 
But I just wanna see my kids, I just wanna hold my girls 
       C                                 D 
Heaven knows I ain't got much of nothin' else in this whole world 
       G                         Bm 
I just wanna be around enough to know that they've been loved 
       C                  D                G 
I just wanna be the daddy   my daddy never was 


Instrumental: G  Bm  C  D 

Verse 
    G                                  Bm 
Now lately she's been knowing this ol' boy she met in church 
    C                                   D 
And I can't say she's wrong for wantin' more 
       G                                  Bm 
I gave him the right to tell my wife that I can't come around 
    C                                   D 
The night I knocked a hole in her front door 
       C                         G 
And Loretta took my keys and she made me wait outside 
        C                                D 
But she didn't call the law she called a cab 
    C                      G 
And as I pulled away I saw somethin' in her eyes 
   C                                  D 
So I reckon that she knows I ain't so bad 

 
           G                         Bm 
But I just wanna see my kids, I just wanna hold my girls 
       C                                 D 
Heaven knows I ain't got much of nothin' else in this whole world 
       G                         Bm 
I just wanna be around enough to know that they've been loved 
       C                  D                G 
I just wanna be the daddy   my daddy never was 


Instrumental: G  Bm  C  D 

Bridge 
   G                                  Bm 
My boss'll tell you that I've been to work all week on time 
    C                           D (let ring) 
And I ain't had no liquor on my breath 

Outro: G  Bm  C  D  G