🎸 I Never Knew My Daddy chords by Judith Durham

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C

Chorus:
                Am
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C               F       G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  Am             Em
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  Dm      Am        F       G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C            G        C
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue

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

Verse:
    Am             Em
But the summer turned to winter and winter soon was gone
    F        G       C
As she patiently would wait for him alone
    Am               Em
And the child that grew within her, so proud in spring was born
    F      G        C   G7
But my daddy never made the journey home

Chorus:
    C            Am
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C               F       G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  Am             Em
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  Dm      Am        F       G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C            G        C
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue

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

Verse:
    Am            Em
I would see her at the window, a-gazin’ down the road
    F        G       C
With a crumpled, faded letter in her hand
     Am              Em
And she’d tell me with her eyes all the sadness of goodbyes
    F        G       C  G7
From a summertime when once my life began

Chorus:
    C            Am
Well, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C               F       G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  Am             Em
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  Dm      Am        F       G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C            G        C
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue

Chorus:
               Am
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue
  C               F       G
He gave me life before he died, a child he never knew
  Am             Em
He fought a hundred heroes, my kinfolk used to tell
  Dm      Am        F       G
To be beside his pretty bride - he loved her very well
   C            G        C
Oh, I never new my daddy, who sailed the ocean blue