INTRO: F  C  G  C

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It was twenty-five years ago when I began my life
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The second child of a woman who tried hard to raise us right
              C        E7           Am    F
She married a man when I was just a babe
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Who treated me just like his own, even giving me his name


CHORUS:
                C         E7            Am    F
I never knew my father, I only knew his name
                 G7            F  
I never knew the way he moved
                  G7            F
How he talked, or what he said
                  C
Now I'm grown and mama says,
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"You're like your daddy, just the same" 


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Sometimes I got to wondering, about this man I never knew
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When I'd find myself into something, just the way he used to do  
              C              E7              Am    F
Heard stories all my life of how he loved to sing  
                 C              G7          C       F
And how he would take apart and fix most anything


CHORUS:
                C         E7            Am    F
I never knew my father, I only knew his name
                 G7            F  
I never knew the way he moved
                  G7            F
How he talked, or what he said
                  C
Now I'm grown and mama says,
                  G7              C      
"You're like your daddy, just the same" 


INSTRUMENTAL: C    F  C  Am  D  G  F  C  E7  Am  F  C  G7  C


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I can't say, that I don't care that he died before I was born  
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I get to asking why he did, and I'll probably ask some more
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My life's been good and I can't say that I've had it bad  
            C                 G7           C       F
But now I'm seeing years that my dad never had


CHORUS:
                C         E7            Am    F
I never knew my father, I only knew his name
                 G7            F  
I never knew the way he moved
                  G7            F
How he talked, or what he said
                     C
Now I'm grown and my mama says,
                  G7              C      F  C  G  C
"You're like your daddy, just the same"