G                     D/F#
Mama called about the paper turns out they wrote about me   
Em
Now my broken heart´ the only thing that's broke about me   
G                          D/F#
So many people should have seen what we got going on   
Em
I only wanna put my heart and my life in songs   
G                        D/F#
Writing about the pain I felt with my daddy gone   
Em
About the emptiness I felt when I sat alone   
G                          D/F#
About the happiness i feel when I sing it loud   
Em
He should have heard the noise we made with the happy crowd   
C                        D
Did my grandaddy know he taught me what a poem was   
G/B                     Em
How you can use a sentence or just a simple pause   
C                            D
What will I say when my kids ask me who my daddy was   
G/B                      Em
I thought about it for a while and I'm at a loss   
C                      D
Knowing that I´m gonna live my whole life without him   
G/B                  Em
I found out a lot of things I never knew about him   
C                       D
All I know is that I´ll never really be alone   
G/B                   Em                C
Cause we gotta lot of love in my happy home   



G                     D/F#
Magazines are writing stuff but I don´t ever read them   
Em
Some of the folks I used to know would see and start believing   
G                            D/F#
That I would pass them by on streets and never reach to greet them  
Em
I still remember folks even though I rarely meet them   
G                         D/F#
Don´t you know I miss the times when we used to hang   
Em
Before twenty deep depended on a single man   
G                         D/F#
Before a single heart was broken by a single blow   
Em
Before all our careers depended on a single show   
C                       D
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home   
G/B                Em
Now I got a lot of cash and I'm on a road   
C               D
I realize privacy´ becoming difficult   
G/B                    Em
It´ all right now but what about when I´m old   
C                    D
I know my good friends now they´ll last   
G/B                      Em
the same ones that stood by me when my daddy past   
C                        D
All I know is that we´ll never really be alone   
G/B                   Em                      C
Cause we got a lot of love and a happy home   



G                D/F#
I write a lot of songs will anybody ever read them   
Em
You hear them on the radio but will you really read them   
G                        D/F#
Why do we have our idols and why do we wanna be them   
Em
After we see them on TV we really wanna meet them   
G                             D/F#
Don´t you think they miss the time when they used to hang   
Em
Before a fan base depended on a single man   
G                         D/F#
Before a single heart was broken by a single show  
Em
Who´ gonna stand who´ gonna fall I really wanna know   
C                       D
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home   
G/B                     Em
My daddy use to play me vinyl but now daddy´ gone   
C                          D
I used to practice with my mommy on the piano   
G/B                       Em
I still get nervous every time I know she´ at a show   
C                   D
Now my family comes first before everyone   
G/B                     Em
I had the perfect dad I wanna be the perfect son   
C                    D
Though I really feel sometimes I am on my own   
G/B                   Em
I know I got a lot of love and a happy home