I Never Knew My Daddy chords by Judith Durham

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC

Chorus:
                A minorAm
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C majorC               FF       G+G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  A minorAm             E minorEm
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  DmDm      A minorAm        FF       G+G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C majorC            G+G        C majorC
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue

Verse:
                  A minorAm
When she waved him off to war, she didn’t tell him then
 FF                 C majorC
About the child she carried soon to come
              A minorAm
And as he sailed away, she cried for him and prayed
    FF                 C majorC  G+G
For his safe returning when the fight was won

Verse:
    A minorAm             E minorEm
But the summer turned to winter and winter soon was gone
    FF        G+G       C majorC
As she patiently would wait for him alone
    A minorAm               E minorEm
And the child that grew within her, so proud in spring was born
    FF      G+G        C majorC   G7G7
But my daddy never made the journey home

Chorus:
    C majorC            A minorAm
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C majorC               FF       G+G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  A minorAm             E minorEm
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  DmDm      A minorAm        FF       G+G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C majorC            G+G        C majorC
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue

Verse:
                  A minorAm
Then I grew so strong and tall, my hair was flaxen gold
  FF                 C majorC
But mother’s hair had turned to silver grey
                 A minorAm
And though she’d give a smile and laugh with me awhile
 FF                C majorC
I knew she still remembered yesterday

Verse:
    A minorAm            E minorEm
I would see her at the window, a-gazin’ down the road
    FF        G+G       C majorC
With a crumpled, faded letter in her hand
     A minorAm              E minorEm
And she’d tell me with her eyes all the sadness of goodbyes
    FF        G+G       C majorC  G7G7
From a summertime when once my life began

Chorus:
    C majorC            A minorAm
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C majorC               FF       G+G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  A minorAm             E minorEm
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  DmDm      A minorAm        FF       G+G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C majorC            G+G        C majorC
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue

Chorus:
               A minorAm
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C majorC               FF       G+G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  A minorAm             E minorEm
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  DmDm      A minorAm        FF       G+G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C majorC            G+G        C majorC
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue