Tablature daddy frank - Merle Haggard

          



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  Date: 9/18/96; 12:04:03 AM

  From: Darragh Egan <darragh@switchtech.net>

  Subject: Daddy Frank(crd) by Merle Haggard

  

  MERLE HAGGARD  --  DADDY FRANK (THE GUITAR MAN)

  

  Written by Merle Haggard - Tree Pub. Co. Inc. / CBS Music Group (BMI), 1971?

  Transcribed from: Merle Haggard, "Collectors Series" - Capitol Records, 1990.

  Original single released in 1971.

  

  

  SPOKEN INTRO [no music]: Let me tell you about a song that I feel explains

  itself.  It's called: "Daddy Frank, the Guitar Man."

  

  

  INTRO:    | D       | A       | D[stop]      | [NC]

  

  CHORUS:         |D               |              |             |

            Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,

            |                 |             |A        |

            Sister played the ringing tambourine.

            |             |               |          |

            Mama couldn't hear our pretty music,

                |                 |                 |D           |

            She read our lips and helped the family sing.

  

            That [D]little band was all a part of living,

            And our only means of living at the [A]time;

            And it wasn't like no normal family combo,

            Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was [D]blind.

  

  

  |G             |               |D          |

  Frank and mama counted on each other;

        |G           |                  |Bm          |

  Their one and only weakness made them strong.

  |G           |               |D           |

  Mama did the driving for the family,

      |Bm          |             |A           |

  And Frank made a living with a song.

  

  |G              |              |D           |

  Home was just a camp along the highway;

    |G              |               |Bm          |

  A pick-up bed was where we bedded down.

        |G          |            |D           |

  Don't ever once remember going hungry,

         |D      G    |D      A      |D        |D       [<-1 strum

  But I remember mama cooking on the ground.            per letter]

  

  

  [REPEAT CHORUS]

  

  

  [G]Don't remember how they got ac[D]quainted;

  I [G]can't recall just how it came to [Bm]be.

  There [G]had to be some special help from [D]someone,

  And [Bm]blessed be the one that let it [A]be.

  

  [G]Fever caused my mama's loss of [D]hearing.

  [G]Daddy Frank was born without his [Bm]sight.

  [G]And mama needed someone she could [D]lean on,

      |D  G         |D     A       |D        |Bb    [<-changes key]

  And I believe the guitar man was right.

  

  

  REPEAT CHORUS IN KEY OF Eb [Either capo up one fret or substitute

  Eb for D, and Bb for A].  FADE OUT TOWARDS END OF CHORUS.

  

  Eb: 365343 or xx5343     Bb: 113331 or xx3331 or 688766

  

  Transcribed by Darragh Egan <darragh@switchtech.net>

  Thanks to whoever posted the lyrics for this song to COWPIE. 


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 Daddy frank, de Merle haggard 

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