Date: 2/10/02; 3:35 pm
From: Jacob Groves (jakegroves@hotmail.com)
Subject: My Father’s Son
My Father’s Son (Dan Colehour, Scooter Carusoe)
As recorded by Montgomery Gentry, on “Carrying On”
C G
Old white washed barn doors
D
Rain rusted tin
C G
Straw packed shirt and blue jeans
D
Hangin' in the wind
C G D
There's never time for these bones to mend
C G
Up before the sun dries
D
The frost on my fields
C G
I've got the diesel burnin'
D
Turnin' these four wheels
C G D
Across this land I been handed down
C G D
Feel my roots run deep in this ground
Chorus:
G D
So stand me up tall in this seat
C G D
Lord help me guide this plow beneath my feet
G D
And turn this earth over one more time
C G D
Some say this way of life is done
C G
But not for my father's son
C G
Three Generations
D
Before I ever came
C G
Cut back these timbers
D
And bet their lives on grain
C G D
And I want to see just once before I die
C G D
Us doin' more than just barely getting by
Chorus
Solo CGDCGD
C G
Now and then I walk my fence
D
Down by the old country road
C G
And watch the cars go rushin' by
D
And disappear like ghosts
C G D
Out where the sky meets the amber waves
C G D
Yeah I'm a rock in this land God made
Chorus
CGD Fade Out
