Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)

DADDY FRANK (The Guitar Man)
By Merle Haggard
Key: D

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Dad-dy Frank played the gui-tar 
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and the french harp
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Sis-ter played the ring-in' tam-bou-rine
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And Ma-ma could-n't hear 
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our pret-ty mu-sic
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but she read our lips 
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and helped the fam-‘ly sing
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that lit-tle band was all a part of liv-in'
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and our on-ly means of liv-in' at the time
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and it was-n't like no 
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nor-mal fam-‘ly com-bo
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'Cause Dad-dy Frank the gui-tar man was blind

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Frank and Ma-ma count-ed on each oth-er
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Their one and on-ly weak-ness made ‘em strong
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Ma-ma did the driv-in' for the fam-‘ly
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and Frank made a liv-in' with a song
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Home was just a camp a-long the high-way
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A pick-up bed was where we bed-ded down
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Don't ev-er once re-mem-ber go-in' hun-gry
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And I re-mem-ber Ma-ma cook-in' on the ground

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Dad-dy Frank played the gui-tar 
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and the french harp
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Sis-ter played the ring-in' tam-bou-rine
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And Ma-ma could-n't hear 
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our pret-ty mu-sic
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but she read our lips 
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and helped the fam-‘ly sing
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that lit-tle band was all a part of liv-in'
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and our on-ly means of liv-in' at the time
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and it was-n't like no 
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nor-mal fam-‘ly com-bo
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'Cause Dad-dy Frank the gui-tar man was blind


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Don't re-mem-ber how they got ac-quaint-ed
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I can’t re-call just how it came to be
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There had to be some 
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spe-cial help from some-one
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and blessed be the one who let it be
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Fev-er caused my Ma-ma's loss of hear-in'
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Dad-dy Frank was born with-out his sight
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and Ma-ma need-ed some-one she could lean on
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and I be-lieve the gui-tar man was right

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Dad-dy Frank played the gui-tar 
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and the french harp
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Sis-ter played the ring-in' tam-bou-rine
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And Ma-ma could-n't hear 
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our pret-ty mu-sic
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but she read our lips 
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and helped the fam-‘ly sing
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that lit-tle band was all a part of liv-in'
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and our on-ly means of liv-in' at the time
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and it was-n't like no 
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nor-mal fam-‘ly com-bo
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'Cause Dad-dy Frank the gui-tar man was blind


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Yes it was-n't like no 
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nor-mal fam-‘ly com-bo
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'Cause Dad-dy Frank the gui-tar man was blind