Daddy Said chords by Nanci Griffith

Chords with lyrics

Daddy Said
Nanci Griffith
Once in a Very Blue Moon
1984

Intro:

G+G B minorBm C majorC G+G

Verse:

G+G                            B minorBm
Oh, I used to wish I was a hard line taker...and they'd say,
B minorBm
"Six to one a half dozen'll break her,"
   C majorC                      G+G
'Till I fell in love with a young man who sang the blues
G+G
Oh, bless my daddy, he warned me well
   B minorBm
He'd whisper in my ear and say, "Now look out, gal...
    C majorC                     G+G
There's always a ne'er do well gonna call you the fool"

Chorus:

         C majorC            G+G
He said, "You'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line
    C majorC               G+G
You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin'
      C majorC       G+G
And it's a pity that your lover died young, but...
    C minorCm            G+G
You'll never get tired of livin' alone."

Verse:

G+G
So, now I dream of the lover that I don't know
   B minorBm
It's safer this way 'cuz I don't have to go...
    C majorC               G+G
Oh, and he won't come...so nobody goes away
G+G
Sometimes I wish for the warmth of his hand
    B minorBm
Take a look in these eyes and understand
      C majorC                        G+G
I'm just a little too old to be a-learnin' the rules of the game

Chorus:

         C majorC            G+G
He said, "You'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line
    C majorC               G+G
You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin'
      C majorC       G+G
And it's a pity that your lover died young, but...
    C minorCm            G+G
You'll never get tired of livin' alone."

Solo/Break:

G+G B minorBm C majorC G+G
G MajorG B minorBm C majorC G+G

Verse:

G+G
Oh, maybe I could take him to Mexico
   B minorBm
We'd kick our heels in the warm cloudy gulf
      C majorC
He'd sing a song about the weather in the Poconos;
G+G
This lover that I don't know
G+G
Then two hearts would pound 'stead of one in the night
  B minorBm
I'd learn to fish with my own line
      C majorC               G+G
Catch that dream and hope that line would hold

Chorus:

         C majorC            G+G
He said, "You'll never learn to fish on a borrowed line
    C majorC               G+G
You'll never learn to write if you're walkin' 'round cryin'
      C majorC       G+G
And it's a pity that your lover died young, but...
    C minorCm            G+G
You'll never get tired of livin' alone."
   C minorCm            G+G
No, I never get tired of livin' alone
       C minorCm               G+G
Sometimes my feet get cold...when I'm livin' alone...

Outro:

G+G B minorBm C majorC G+G