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From:
[email protected] (Paul McGinness)
Subject: CRDS: UnWED FATHERS (Prine)
The song is a 1-4-5 using very basic alternate bass picking.
Enjoy. If you have any Prine or Steve Goodman in your
puter please send them along....
Unwed Fathers
by John Prine
In an Appalachian, Greyhound station
She sits there waiting, in a family way
Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her
Tell all the others, I ll write someday
Chorus:
From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother
kept undercovers, like some bad dream
While unwed fathers, they can t be bothered
They run like water, through a mountain stream
In a cold and grey town, a nurse say s Lay down
This ain t no playground, and this ain t home
Someones children, out having children
in a grey stone building, all al-one
(Chorus)
Some where else bound, Smokey Mountain Greyhound
She bows her head down, humming lullabys
Your daddy never, meant to hurt you ever
he just don t live here, but you ve got his eyes
(Chorus)
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-Paul McGinness
