C F G C
G Am E F
G C G C

[Verse 1]
   C          F       G          C
I met an old man one night in a bar
          G      Am
He was sitting alone
         G             F
The way men his age always are
     G              C
His movements were slow
         G         C
Didn't speak very well
      G        Am        E        F
But every old man has a story to tell
G          C          G       C
Every old man has a story to tell

[Verse 2]
     C           F
He lived by the book
          G           C
Went to church every day
     G              Am
His wife left him young
           G            F
With two daughters and bills to pay
     G             C
He worked himself hard
          G              C
And the years flickered past
      G              Am            E          F
His girls kept him young but they grew up so fast
      G             C              G          C
His girls kept him young but they grew up so fast

[Verse 3]
  C        F           G           C
Prodigal Faith always felt second best
      G               Am
When she turned seventeen
              Am            G           F
She took her coat and her camera And headed west
     G              C
It broke her dad's heart
       G            C
But as he likes to say
       G           Am         E          F
With enough time apart even Faith fades away
       G           C          G           C
With enough time apart even Faith fades away

[Verse 4]
 C         F          G          C
Jenny met Ray in his last days ashore
       G         Am
They married in May
           G         F
And that August he joined the war
          G          C
He said Jenny don't cry
         G           C
I'll be home in the fall
        G             Am             E         F
So she held her head high and said nothing at all
     G             C              G         C
She held her head high and said nothing at all

[Verse 5]
         C         F            G          C
Then he got in a plane, Took it up in the air
    G          Am
It never came down
              Am               G          F
For all she knows it's stlil flying around up there
       G          C
Then Jenny went wrong
         G           C
And the last that I heard
            G          Am              E         F
It's been seven years long since she uttered a word
  G          C               G        C
Seven years gone since she uttered a word

[Verse 6]
          C          F         G           C
Now her father just sits all alone at the bar
     G          Am
He orders his drinks
             Am        G            F
And smokes cigarettes he knows he can't afford
      G         C
He's got no regrets
           G           C
Says he's doing quite well
     G        Am          E       F
But every old man has a story to tell
  G        C          G       C
Every old man has a story to tell