Ghosts Of Our Fathers chords by Otis Gibbs

Chords with lyrics

ocultar tablatura
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BB|-----------------|
G+G|-----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------|
A augmentedA|-------3---0-----|
E MajorE|-0-0-3---3---3-0-|

Intro: A minorAm FF C majorC

Verse
C majorC     A minorAm    FF
He was almost blind
                C majorC
They say it happens when you've been punched to many times
        A minorAm  FF
His hands were stone
           C majorC
He was a bare-knuckle champion in an earlier life
      A minorAm      FF
It was hard not to stare
         C majorC
At his busted up nose and cauliflower ears
     A minorAm     FF
And he'd smile at me
           C majorC            G+G
And say the toughest fighters have their souvenirs

 FF
How to carry on
     C majorC
When the hardest punch is thrown
FF                 C majorC
And take away the burden from our shoulders

Verse
     A minorAm    FF
He lived next door
              C majorC
He'd sometimes get with my father and talk about life
      A minorAm    FF
And sit on the porch
         C majorC
Drinkin' beer and remembering happier times
      A minorAm  FF
And I was a child
         C majorC
And I was far too young to ever understand
            A minorAm  FF
What it meant to have a son
            C majorC       G+G
Who'd been drafted and killed in Vietnam

FF
How to carry on
     C majorC
When the hardest punch is thrown
FF                 C majorC
And take away the burden from our shoulders

Verse
       A minorAm FF
My father and I
         C majorC
Tried to keep him company so his mind could rest
      A minorAm   FF
On Saturday nights
           C majorC
We'd huddle 'round a black and white TV set
           A minorAm   FF
And we all stood and cheered
           C majorC
When Ali knocked out Foreman that night in Zaire
        A minorAm  FF
And later that night
          C majorC             G+G
My father held his hand as he broke down and cried

FF
How to carry on
     C majorC
When the hardest punch is thrown
FF                 C majorC
And take away the burden from our shoulders

Verse
          A minorAm  FF
And there stands a wall
        C majorC
In the clearing across from the national mall
         A minorAm  FF
It's crowded with names
          C majorC
Of the thousands of children that never came home
        A minorAm  FF
I stood in the rain
          C majorC
Watching dozens of mourners stumbling by
        A minorAm  FF
When I saw his name
            C majorC
I felt the ghost of our fathers kneeling at my side