Everclear - Father Of Mine Acoustic Chords & Tabs

This is based on an acoustic performance given by Art Alexakis for Guitar Centre 
and is easily found on Youtube if you want to see the strumming pattern and the 
chord changes on the interlude.

the tuning is one full step down

great song, enjoy!


D                         
    Father of mine
                                                 G
Tell me where have you been?
                                                  Em
You know I just closed by eyes
                                                 D
My whole world disappeared
                         F#
Father of mine
                                        G
Take me back to the day
                                                               Em
Yeah, when I was still your golden boy
                                              D
Back before you went away


interlude
D A G F#  G A(pull off) 
D A G F# (yeah yeah) G D

D                       F#   
    Father of mine
                                             G
Tell me where did you go?
                               Em
Yeah, you had the world inside your hand
                                              D
But you did not seem to know
D                        F#
    Father of mine
                                           G
Tell me what do you see?
                               Em
When you look back at your wasted life
                                D
And you don't see me



[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/e/everclear/father_of_mine_acoustic_crd.html ]
(Palm mute)
D                           F#
I was ten years old
                               G
Doin' all that I could
                                               Em (Strum)
It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy
       D (strum then mute)
In a black neighborhood
D                                                   F#
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
                                 G
With a five dollar bill
                         Em
I never understood you then
                                    D
And I guess I never will



D A G F#          G A(pull off)  D
           Daddy Gave me a name
D A G F#          G A(pull off)  D
           Daddy Gave me a name, then he walked away...
D A G F# G D

D           D             D
   yeah,      yeah,      yeah



(palm mute)
D                         F#
    Father of mine
                                                  G
Tell me where have you been?
                                             Em
Yeah, I just closed by eyes
                                            D
And the world disappeared
                         F#
Father of mine
                                            G          
Tell me how do you sleep?
                                             Em
With the children you abandoned
                                              D
And the wife I saw you beat
                               F#
I will never be safe
                               G
I will never be sane
                                     Em
I will always be weird inside
                               D
I will always be lame
                                   F#
Now I'm a grown man
                                  G
With a child of my own
                                      Em
And I swear, I'll never let her know
 
                                          D
All the pain I have known

D A G F#          G A(pull off)  D
           Daddy Gave me a name
D A G F#          G A(pull off)  D
           Daddy Gave me a name, then he walked away...
D A G F# G D

D           D             D
   yeah,      yeah,      yeah and he walked away... etc