A Drunkards Child chords by Jimmie Rodgers

Chords with lyrics

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

(3/4)

Intro:
| C majorC | C majorC | G+G | C majorC |
| C majorC | C majorC | D7D7 | D7D7 |
| D7D7 | G7G7 | G7G7 | C majorC |
(yodel)


Verse 1:
                     G7G7
My father is a drunkard, my mother she is dead
                      G+G   C majorC
And I am just an orphan child, no place to lay my head
                 C7C7            FF
All through this world I wander, they drive me from their door
          C majorC      G7G7       C majorC
Someday I'll find a welcome, on heaven's golden shore

Verse 2:
                       G7G7
Now if to me you'll listen, I'll tell a story sad
                              C majorC
How drinking rum and the gambling hell, have stoled away my dad
                 C7C7         FF
My mother she is in heaven, where God and the angels smile
           C majorC       G7G7   G+G   C majorC
And now I know she's watching, her lonely orphan child

Break:
| C majorC | C majorC | C majorC | D7D7 |
| D7D7 | D7D7 | G7G7 | G7G7 |
| C majorC | C majorC |
(yodel)

Verse 3:
                   G7G7
We were once so happy and had a happy home
                            C majorC
'Till daddy he went to drinking rum and then he gambled some
                C7C7        FF
He left my darling mother, she died of a broken heart
         C majorC    G7G7         C majorC
And as I tell my story, I see your teardrops start

Verse 4:
                          G7G7
Don't weep for me and mother, although I know it is sad
                  G+G          C majorC
But try to get someone to cheer and save my poor lonely dad
                C7C7         FF
I'm awful cold and hungry, she closed her eyes and sighed
             C majorC        G7G7   G+G     C majorC
Then those who heard her story, knew the orphan child had died

Outro:
| C majorC | C majorC | C majorC | D7D7 |
| D7D7 | D7D7 | G+G | G+G |
| C majorC | C majorC |
(yodel)