D5                         
    Father of mine
                                                 G5
Tell me where have you been?
                                                  E5
You know I just closed by eyes
                                                 D5
My whole world disappeared
                         F#5
Father of mine
                                        G5
Take me back to the day
                                                               E5
Yeah, when I was still your golden boy
                                              D5
Back before you went away


interlude
D5 A5 G5 F#5  G5 A(pull off) 
D5 A5 G5 F#5 (yeah yeah) G5 D5

D5                       F#5   
    Father of mine
                                             G5
Tell me where did you go?
                               E5
Yeah, you had the world inside your hand
                                              D5
But you did not seem to know
D5                        F#5
    Father of mine
                                           G5
Tell me what do you see?
                               E5
When you look back at your wasted life
                                D5
And you don't see me




(Palm mute)
D5                           F#5
I was ten years old
                               G5
Doin' all that I could
                                               E5 (Strum )
It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy
       D (strum then mute)
In a black neighborhood
D5                                                   F#5
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
                                 G5
With a five dollar bill
                         E5
I never understood you then
                                    D5
And I guess I never will



D5 A5 G5 F#5          G5 A(pull off)  D5
           Daddy Gave me a name
D5 A5 G5 F#5          G5 A(pull off)  D5
           Daddy Gave me a name, then he walked away...
D5 A5 G5 F#5 G5 D5

D5           D5             D5
   yeah,      yeah,      yeah



(palm mute)
D5                         F#5
    Father of mine
                                                  G5
Tell me where have you been?
                                             E5
Yeah, I just closed by eyes
                                            D5
And the world disappeared
                         F#5
Father of mine
                                            G5          
Tell me how do you sleep?
                                             E5
With the children you abandoned
                                              D5
And the wife I saw you beat
                               F#5
I will never be safe
                               G5
I will never be sane
                                     E5
I will always be weird inside
                               D5
I will always be lame
                                   F#5
Now I'm a grown man
                                  G5
With a child of my own
                                      E5
And I swear, I'll never let her know
 
                                          D5
All the pain I have known

D5 A5 G5 F#5          G5 A(pull off)  D5
           Daddy Gave me a name
D5 A5 G5 F#5          G5 A(pull off)  D5
           Daddy Gave me a name, then he walked away...
D5 A5 G5 F#5 G5 D5

D5           D5             D5
   yeah,      yeah,      yeah and he walked away... etc