I Never Knew My Daddy

C

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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