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CAPO 11

INTRO: GCGC

G5                C5
I woke up crying late at night
G5               C5
when I was very young.
G5                C5
I had dreamed my father
G5                   D5
had passed away and gone.

G5                 C5
My world revolved around him
   G5                   C5          
I couldnt lay there anymore.
G5                         C5
So I made my way down the mirrored hall
G5          D5        G5
and tapped upon his door.

CHORUS
            B5         G5
And I said "Daddy, I'm so afraid
         B5               G5
how will I go on with you gone that way?
            B5
Don't wanna cry anymore
   G5               A5    D5
so may I stay with you?"
             G5      D5  G5
And he said "That's my job,
       D5      G5
that's what I do.
C5            D5     G5          C5
Everything I do is because of you,
G5           D5         B5
To keep you safe with me.
G5         C5       G5
That's my job you see."

G5                   C5
Later we barely got along
G5                    C5 
this teenage boy and he.
            G5
Most of the fights it seems
          C5
were over different dreams,
G5                D5
we each held for me.
G5                       C5
He wanted knowledge and learning.
G5                   C5   
I wanted to fly out west.
               G5
Said, "I could make it out there
     C5                   
if I just had the fare.
G5                    D5           G5
I got half, will you loan me the rest?"

CHORUS
            B5         G5
And I said "Daddy, I'm so afraid,
           B5               G5
there's no guarantee in the plans
                 B5
I've made and if I should fail,
G5                        A5    D5
who will pay my way back home?"

            G5       D5  G5
And he said "That's my job
       D5      G5
that's what I do.
C5            D5     G5          C5
Everything I do is because of you
G5           D5         B5
to keep you safe with me.
G5         C5       G5
That's my job you see."

BRIDGE
E5           D5            
Every person carves his spot
    C5         D5         G5
and fills the hole with light.
      C5       D5      G5
And I pray someday I might
         C5         D5
light as bright as he.

G5                 C5
Woke up early one bright fall day
G5                    C5
to spread the tragic news.
      G5              C5
After all my travel, I settled down
G5                D5
within a mile or two.

G5                     C5
I make my living with words and rhyme
G5                 D5
and all this tragedy
G5                          C5
Should go into my head and out instead
D5             G5
as bits of poetry.

CHORUS
           B5         G5
But I say "Daddy, I'm so afraid,
         B5               G5
how will I go on with you gone this way?
G5                        D5
How can I come up with a song to say
  C5         D5
I love you?"
G5      D5  G5    D5             G5
That's my job, That's what I do
C5            D5     G5          C5
Everything I do is because of you
G5           D5         B5
to keep you safe with me.
G5         C5       G5
That's my job you see.
C5            D5     G5          C5
Everything I do is because of you
G5           D5         B5
to keep you safe with me. GCG
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