Emmylou Harris, To Daddy Tabs

Emmylou Harris    To Daddy   written by Dolly Parton



Hank DeVito     steel guitar
Brian Ahern     12 string guitar
Rodney Crowell  acoustic guitar
Glen D Hardin   piano
John Ware       drums
Emory Gordy     bass
Mickey Raphael  harmonica


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Mama never seemed

To miss the finer things of life
                                   D
If she did she never did say so to daddy

She never wanted to be more

Than mother and a wife
                                   G
If she did she never did say so to daddy
G
The only thing that seemed

To be important in her life
                        G7               C
Was to make our house a home and make us happy

Mama never wanted
    G
Any more that what she had
       D                            G
If she did she never did say so to daddy
G
He often left her all alone

She didn't mind the staying home
                                   D
If she did she never did say so to daddy

And she never missed the flowers

And the cards he never sent her
                                   G
If she did she never did say so to daddy
G
Being took for granted

Was a thing that she accepted
                                             C
And she didn't need those things to make her happy

And she didn't seem to notice
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That he didn't kiss and hold her
       D                           G
If she did she never did say so to daddy
    C
One morning we awoke

Just to find a note
                                      D
That mama carefully wrote and left to daddy
    C
And as we began to read it

Our ears could not believe it
                                        D
The words that she had written there to daddy
    G
She said the kids are older now

They don't need me very much
                           G7             C
And I've gone in search of love I need so badly

I have needed you so long
    G
But I just can't keep holding on
 
She never meant to come back home
D                               C
She did she never did say so to daddy
           G
Goodbye to daddy

From Emmylou Harris "Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town"
Warner Brothers Records 1978
Owepar Publishing Company(BMI)