A B
You sent me to the shed with a haul of tools
A D
Well I remember how you said that I could take what I could use
A B
I got a hammer and a ratchet set
D
A hundred tools I ain't used yet
F#m E D
Well they're rusty, but they work as good as new
A B D Dm E
Tools, tools
[Verse 2]
A D
Well I remember you as quiet as a picture
A D
Like that picture of the Navy sailor grinning for the girls
A B
You had visited the barber
D
You were stationed at Pearl Harbor
F#m E D
A year before the War became the world's
[Chorus]
E C# F#m
And you say, "Boy, sometimes you've got to get up on that ship
E D
Leave all you love behind."
E C#
Well, Grampa, I've been everywhere
F#m A/F#
But Fargo, North Dakota
D E
It ain't war, but it's a fight
A F#m D E
Tools, tools
[Verse 3]
A D
Well, I never knew you ever drew one picture
A
But if you want proof that I've got you
D
Here running through my veins
A B
I could show you call the sketchbooks
D
That I filled when I was young
F#m E D
And sixty years ago you did the same
[Chorus]
E C#
And you say, "Boy, just let 'em laugh
F#m
When all they see is lines--
E D
Paint yourself a picture of your life
E C#
I believe that Swedish folks were
F#m
Born with better eyes."
D E
Grampa, I have always loved the sky
A B
I think you're right
D E
You gave me tools
[Bridge]
D A
You sent that telegraph to tell her that you missed her
D E F#m
When my daddy was a baby, oh you gave him to the Lord
E C# F#m A D
And the faith you handed down has somehow stuck around
D
And love has called you home again
Dm E
To roam again no more
[Verse 4]
A B
You sent me to the shed with a haul of tools
A D
Well I remember how you said that I could take what I could use
A B D
Faith and Love and Hope are what I carried home
F#m E D
They're rusty but they work as good as new
A B D Dm E A
Tools, tools
