G  Bm  C  D

[Verse]
   G                                  Bm
My boss'll tell you that I've been to work all week on time
    C                           G
And I ain't had no liquor on my breath
G                                 Bm
Ain't no kind of secret I've been known to take a drink
         C                              D
And it's made me do some things that I regret
 C                                 G
Loretta said this ain't no kind of way to raise a family
        C                                      D
And one night she called it quits and called a cab
             C                                       G
She left the clothes out on the clothes line and the dishes in the sink
     C                                     D
So I guess she knows that she ain't comin' back

[Chorus]
           G                         Bm
But I just wanna see my kids, I just wanna hold my girls
       C                                 D
Heaven knows I ain't got much of nothin' else in this whole world
       G                         Bm
I just wanna be around enough to know that they've been loved
       C                  D                G
I just wanna be the daddy   my daddy never was

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
    G                                  Bm
Now lately she's been knowing this ol' boy she met in church
    C                                   D
And I can't say she's wrong for wantin' more
       G                                  Bm
I gave him the right to tell my wife that I can't come around
    C                                   D
The night I knocked a hole in her front door
       C                         G
And Loretta took my keys and she made me wait outside
        C                                D
But she didn't call the law she called a cab
    C                      G
And as I pulled away I saw somethin' in her eyes
   C                                  D
So I reckon that she knows I ain't so bad

[Chorus]
           G                         Bm
But I just wanna see my kids, I just wanna hold my girls
       C                                 D
Heaven knows I ain't got much of nothin' else in this whole world
       G                         Bm
I just wanna be around enough to know that they've been loved
       C                  D                G
I just wanna be the daddy   my daddy never was

[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
   G                                  Bm
My boss'll tell you that I've been to work all week on time
    C                           D (let ring)
And I ain't had no liquor on my breath