Waiting For My Child chords by Patty Griffin

Chords with lyrics

Waiting For My Child by Patty Griffin
Album: Downtown Church
Track 11
2010


Standard tuning
Capo on the 5th fret


Chords:

C:   x32010
F:   x33211 or 133211
G:   320003 or 320033

If you prefer you can replace FF by Fmaj7Fmaj7 (xx3210)

(To play without a capo replace the chords above by F, Bb majorBb & C majorC)

 Intro:    C majorC


    C majorC                FF
 I was talking to a lady a few days ago
    C majorC            G+G
 And these are the words she said
     C majorC
 If you see my child somewhere
     FF         C majorC
 As you journey here and there
                G+G      C majorC
 Tell him I'm waiting for my child to come home


    C majorC           FF      C majorC
 I am waiting and waiting for my child to come
    C majorC           FF      G+G
 I'm waiting and waiting for my child to come
     C majorC
 If you can't come home
       FF        C majorC
 Could you please send me a letter
         G+G        C majorC
 A augmentedA letter would mean so much to me


     C majorC
 Oh my child may be somewhere
       FF
 On his sick bed
     C majorC              G+G
 With no one there to rub his aching head
     C majorC
 Oh my child may be somewhere
         FF
 In some lonely jail
    C majorC    G+G       C majorC   (G+G)
 With no one there to go his bail

    C majorC         FF       C majorC
 If I only knew what town my child was in
                    G+G
 I'll be there on that early morning train
     C majorC
 And no matter what's crime
      FF           C majorC
 Lord you know that this child is mine
                  G+G      C majorC
 That's why I'd be waiting for my child to come home


    C majorC           FF      C majorC
 I am waiting and waiting for my child to come
    C majorC           FF      G+G
 I'm waiting and waiting for my child to come
     C majorC
 If you can't come home
       FF        C majorC
 Could you please send me a letter
         G+G        C majorC
 A augmentedA letter would mean so much to me


    C majorC    G+G
 I am waiting, waiting
    C majorC      FF
 I am waiting and waiting
    C majorC        G+G      FF    C majorC
 I am waiting for my child to come home