I Never Knew My Daddy

	  		Intro: C 

 
                                Am 
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 
   C                              F              G 
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew 
   Am                          Em 
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell 
   Dm            Am                F              G 
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well 
      C                       G                C 
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 


Verse 1:
 
                                   Am 
When she waved him off to war, she didn’t tell him then 
 F                                  C 
About the child she carried soon to come 
                           Am 
And as he sailed away, she cried for him and prayed 
        F                                 C    G 
For his safe returning when the fight was won 

        Am                          Em 
But the summer turned to winter and winter soon was gone 
       F               G             C 
As she patiently would wait for him alone 
        Am                             Em 
And the child that grew within her, so proud in spring was born 
       F           G                C     G7 
But my daddy never made the journey home 


        C                       Am 
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 
   C                              F              G 
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew 
   Am                          Em 
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell 
   Dm            Am                F              G 
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well 
      C                       G                C 
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 


Verse 2:
 
                                   Am 
Then I grew so strong and tall, my hair was flaxen gold 
    F                                  C 
But mother’s hair had turned to silver grey 
                                  Am 
And though she’d give a smile and laugh with me awhile 
  F                               C 
I knew she still remembered yesterday 

        Am                       Em 
I would see her at the window, a-gazin’ down the road 
       F               G             C 
With a crumpled, faded letter in her hand 
          Am                            Em 
And she’d tell me with her eyes all the sadness of goodbyes 
       F               G              C    G7 
From a summertime when once my life began 

 
        C                       Am 
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 
   C                              F              G 
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew 
   Am                          Em 
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell 
   Dm            Am                F              G 
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well 
      C                       G                C 
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 

                              Am 
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue 
   C                              F              G 
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew 
   Am                          Em 
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell 
   Dm            Am                F              G 
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well 
      C                       G                C 
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue