My Old Man chords by John Prine

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
G   D   G

Verse 1:
G             D     G
I miss my old man tonight
      G           D         G
And I wish he was here with me
C
With his corny jokes, and his cheap cigars
C                                G
He could look you in the eye, and sell you a car
D                           G
That’s not an easy thing to do
    G           C
but no one ever knew
C                       G
A more charming creature on this earth
     G  D   G
Than my old man

Verse 2:
         G     D          G
He was a pilot in the big war
       G  D        G
In the US Army Air Corp
C
In a C-47, with a heavy load
C                        G
Carrying combat cargo o’er Burma Road
D                          G
And after they dropped the bomb
G               C
he came home and married mom
C               G
And not too long after that
       G  D   G
He was my old man

Instrumental:
G  D   G
G  D   G
C      G
D   G
C      G
G   D  G

Verse 3:
    G       D              G
And oh the fights that we had
        G           D          G
When my brother and me got him mad
        C
He’d get all boiled up, and start to shout
C                          G
We knew what was coming, so we tuned him out
D                      G
And now the old man is gone
G                  C
and I’d give all I own
C                        G
Just to hear what he said, when I wasn’t listing
   G  D   G
To my old man

Verse 4:
G             D     G
I miss my old man tonight
      G      D       G
I can almost see his face
C
He was always trying to watch his weight
C                        G
His heart only made it to fifty-eight
D                               G                   C
For the first time since he died, late last night I cried
C                         G
I was wondering when I was gonna go and do that
    G  D   G
For my old man

Instrumental:
G  D   G
G  D   G
C      G
D   G
C      G
G   D  G