Matthew chords by John Denver

Chords with lyrics

Chords used: G:320003 Am:X02210 D:XX0232 C:X32010

G+G            A minorAm    D MajorD             G+G
I had an uncle name of Matthew...he was his father's only boy
             A minorAm    D MajorD               G+G
Born just south of Colby, Kansas...he was his mother's pride and joy
              G+G         C majorC      A minorAm
  CHORUS: Yes, and joy was just the thing he was raised on
     D MajorD               G+G C majorC G+G
  Love was just a way to live and die
             C majorC       A minorAm
  Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field
     D MajorD       C majorC       G+G
  Blue was just a Kansas summer sky
               A minorAm  D MajorD            G+G
And all the stories that he told me back when I was just a lad
             A minorAm    D MajorD              G+G
All the memories that he gave me...all the good times that he had
           A minorAm    D MajorD            G+G
Growin' up a Kansas farmboy...life was mostly havin' fun
            A minorAm   D MajorD              G+G
Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun
  CHORUS
                A minorAm    D MajorD               G+G
Well, I guess there were some hard times and I'm told some years were lean
           A minorAm  D MajorD                G+G
They had a storm in '47...twister came and stripped 'em clean
                A minorAm          D MajorD         G+G
He lost the farm and lost his family...he lost the wheat, he lost his home
             A minorAm  D MajorD             G+G
But he found the family bible and faith as solid as a stone
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            A minorAm     D MajorD            G+G
So he came to live at our house...and he came to work the land
              A minorAm   D MajorD           G+G
He came to ease my daddy's burdens and he came to be my friend
              A minorAm   D MajorD             G+G
So I wrote this down for Matthew...it's for him this song is sung
            A minorAm   D MajorD              G+G
Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun
  CHORUS 2X