Date: 9/18/96; 12:04:03 AM
From: Darragh Egan
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 [
