Ron Hynes - My Old Man Chords

[Intro]
G    F#m
G    D
G    A    D    A   D
 
[Verse 1]
D                     F#m    G           D
These days I do all I can, like my old man.
D                        F#m
These days the state I'm in.
G                A              D
Sometimes I can feel just like him
D            G                   D
Feel like Im standing in his his shoes,
    G                  D
the very ones he would use.
           G                     D
The watery decks on the Atlantic sea
        F#m    G                             D
look at me. Well it gets fairly uncertain up here
        G                     D
in this slippery spotlight my dear
          G                         D
I've been doing this for thirty-odd years,
                   A5
still hardly quite there
G                                A
Still all in all all I do what I can
 
[Chorus]
A           G   A
like my old man
A           G   A
like my old man
            D
like my old man
 
[Verse 2]
D          F#m
200 fools took all they knew
             G           A              D
they went to war he went to - my my old man.
D                F#m               G            A
When it was done most of them came home he came too.
             D
He couldn't stay on
      G                          D
So he sailed away for thirty-odd years.
                       G
He came home Christmas time
                        D
and in the young summer years
         G                     F#m        G
and mama raised five kids on a wave and a prayer
G                   D         G                   D
I've got four of my own and I talk to them on the phone
            G                        D
I got these lines on my face and my hands
                A
and all I can't do for them
                 G              A
but still all in all I do all I can
 
[Chorus]
A           G   A
like my old man
A           G   A
like my old man
            D
like my old man
 
[Verse 3]
G
Been drinking a bit
                F#m
should probably quit.
G                       D
This won't be no top 40 hit
G                                D
but I keep doing it all of these years.
G                                      D
Stuck up in this slippery spotlight my dear.
             G            D
Gets just as uncertain up here
           G                A
as the red sky when morning clears.
          G                      A
What do I care, seen red sky for years
 
[Chorus]
A           G   A
like my old man
A           G   A
like my old man
A           G   A
like my old man
            D
like my old man
 
[Outro]
G    F#m
G    D
G    A    D    A   D