David Allan Coe - Old Man Tell Me guitar chord

David Allan Coe - Old Man Tell Me

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I've seen the old man sittin' round

The courthouse square back home in town

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Talkin' about the big war, back in 1943

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Sayin' how much good it's done

Medals gleamin' in the sun

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Cussin' at my long hair

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And my talk of bein' free.

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Their vision like their battle scars

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Of other wars has faded

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Like the colors on the ribbons

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From the battles that they've won

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If there's one thing I've learned it's this

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You just can't shake hand with a fist

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And I once did my talkin' with a gun.

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And old man I know what you've seen

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But yours is not the only dream

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I have to believe in something more than yesterday

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Let it die just like the past

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I believe there's hope at last

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Old man, did you ever have to pray

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Old man, can you show me the way.

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He shakes his head from time to time

And rambles somewhere in his mind

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Mumblin' bout the civil war

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And how we should have won

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Settin' up his battle plans

On checker boards at his command

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Watchin' all his gallant kings go fallen one by one.

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And "son he'd say there's not much time

For you to straighten out your mind

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But you never listen, to the things I try to say

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And I just turn my head and cry

Never understanding why

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He'd set up that checkerboard

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When he knew I couldn't play.

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