Part: 1
G D/F#
Mama called about the paper turns out they wrote about me
Em
Now my broken heart´ the only thing that's broke about me
G D/F#
So many people should have seen what we got going on
Em
I only wanna put my heart and my life in songs
G D/F#
Writing about the pain I felt with my daddy gone
Em
About the emptiness I felt when I sat alone
G D/F#
About the happiness i feel when I sing it loud
Em
He should have heard the noise we made with the happy crowd
C D
Did my grandaddy know he taught me what a poem was
G/B Em
How you can use a sentence or just a simple pause
C D
What will I say when my kids ask me who my daddy was
G/B Em
I thought about it for a while and I'm at a loss
C D
Knowing that I´m gonna live my whole life without him
G/B Em
I found out a lot of things I never knew about him
C D
All I know is that I´ll never really be alone
G/B Em C
Cause we gotta lot of love in my happy home
Part: 2
G D/F#
Magazines are writing stuff but I don´t ever read them
Em
Some of the folks I used to know would see and start believing
G D/F#
That I would pass them by on streets and never reach to greet them
Em
I still remember folks even though I rarely meet them
G D/F#
Don´t you know I miss the times when we used to hang
Em
Before twenty deep depended on a single man
G D/F#
Before a single heart was broken by a single blow
Em
Before all our careers depended on a single show
C D
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home
G/B Em
Now I got a lot of cash and I'm on a road
C D
I realize privacy´ becoming difficult
G/B Em
It´ all right now but what about when I´m old
C D
I know my good friends now they´ll last
G/B Em
the same ones that stood by me when my daddy past
C D
All I know is that we´ll never really be alone
G/B Em C
Cause we got a lot of love and a happy home
Part: 3
G D/F#
I write a lot of songs will anybody ever read them
Em
You hear them on the radio but will you really read them
G D/F#
Why do we have our idols and why do we wanna be them
Em
After we see them on TV we really wanna meet them
G D/F#
Don´t you think they miss the time when they used to hang
Em
Before a fan base depended on a single man
G D/F#
Before a single heart was broken by a single show
Em
Who´ gonna stand who´ gonna fall I really wanna know
C D
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home
G/B Em
My daddy use to play me vinyl but now daddy´ gone
C D
I used to practice with my mommy on the piano
G/B Em
I still get nervous every time I know she´ at a show
C D
Now my family comes first before everyone
G/B Em
I had the perfect dad I wanna be the perfect son
C D
Though I really feel sometimes I am on my own
G/B Em
I know I got a lot of love and a happy home