Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Power chords of course

 I don?t know too much about too much of my old man

 I know he walked right out the door and we never saw him again

 Last I heard he was at the bar doin? himself in

 I know I got that same disease I got stuck with it from him

Chorus

Guitar 1

This is the story of my old man

Just like his father before him

 I?m tellin? you do anything you can

 So you don?t end up just like them....like them

Chorus

Guitar 2

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Verse 2

Clean picking (regular chords, not power chords)

Monday he woke up and hated life

Drank until Wednesday and left his wife

 Thursday through Saturday lost everything

 Woke up on Sunday miserable again

Interlude between verses 2 and 3:

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Verse 3

 Interlude

I remember baseball games and working on the car

 He told me that he loved me and that I would go far

 He taught me how to work hard and stick up for myself

 I wish it wasn?t too hard to listen to himself

REPEAT CHORUS

REPEAT VERSE 2 but instead of stopping at the end, keep the chord

progression going a couple more times.

Break

Just play the chorus the same way with both guitars

Verse 4

 Someday he?ll wish that he?d made things right (made things right)

 Long for his family and miss his wife (miss his wife)

 Remember the days he had everything (everything)

Now he?s alone and miserable again