My Father chords by Nina Simone

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
F                         Dm
My father always promised me
Gm                    C
That we would live in France
F                      Dm
We'd go boating on the Seine
Gm7                  C
And I would learn to dance

Verse 2:
Dm            G7
We lived in Ohio then
C                      Cm
He worked in the mines
                   F7
On his dreams like boats we knew
                 Bb
He would sail in time
   F
In time

Verse 3:
F                          Dm
My sisters all grew up and went away
Gm              C2
  To Denver and Cheyenne
F              Dm
Marrying their grownup dreams
Gm                 C
The lilacs and the man

Verse 4:
Dm                  G
I stayed behind the youngest still
C                     Cm
And I danced alone
                F7
Hoping that my father's dreams
             Bb
Would someday take me home
        F
Take me home

Verse 5:
F                   Dm
And I live in Paris now
Gm                      C    F  Dm
  My children dance and sing
                   Gm
Word’s of a miner's tongue
                        C7
A language they've never seen

Verse 6:
Dm                      G7
  I sail my memories of home
C                              Cm
  Like boats across the Seine
                F7
And watch my father‘s eyes
                    Bb
Watch the setting sun
                              F      F
Set in my father's eyes — again