Twitty Conway - Thats My Job Chords & Tabs

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I woke up crying late at night when I was very young	 	 

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I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone	 
 	
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My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore
     
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So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door
 	
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And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone that way?
 	
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Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"

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And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do.  Everything I do is
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because of you, to keep you safe with me.  That's my job you see."
 	
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Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he
 	
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Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams we each held for me
 	
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He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out West
 	
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Said, "I could make it 	out there if I just had the fare.
 	
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I got half, will you loan me the rest."	 
 	
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And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid.  There's no guarentee in the plans
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I've made.  And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"

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And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do.  Everything I do is

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because of you, to keep you safe with me.  That's my job you see."
 	
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   Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with light
 	
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And I pray someday I might light as bright as he	 	 
 	
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Woke up	 early one bright fall day, to spread the tragic news
 	
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After all my travels I settled down within a mile or two
 	
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   I make my living with words and rhyme and all this tragedy
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Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry
 	
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But I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone this
way?
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How can I come up with a song to say I love you.......?"
 	
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"That's my job, that's what I do.  Everything I do is
 	
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because of you, to keep you safe with me.  That's my job you see."
 	
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Everything I do is because of you, to keep you safe with me....

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