C                                 G/B  
Mama called about the paper turns out they wrote about me

Am
Now my broken heart´s the only thing that's broke about me

C                                     G/B      
So many people should have seen what we got going on
 
Am
I only wanna put my heart and my life in songs
 
C                         G/B 
Writing about the pain I felt with my daddy gone
 
Am
About the emptiness I felt when I sat alone
 
C                          G/B        
About the happiness i feel when I sing it loud 

Am
He should have heard the noise we made with the happy crowd 


(Chorus)

F                                    G 
Did my grandaddy know he taught me what a poem was
 
Em                                 Am
How you can use a sentence or just a simple pause
 
F                                  G
What will I say when my kids ask me who my daddy was
 
Em                                 Am
I thought about it for a while and I'm at a loss
 
F                                     G
Knowing that I´m gonna live my whole life without him
 
Em                        Am
I found out a lot of things I never knew about him 

F                      G
All I know is that I´ll never really be alone
 
Em                          Am
Cause we gotta lot of love and a happy home 


C G/B Am
C G/B Am



(Verse 2)
C                               G/B    
Magazines are writing stuff but I don´t ever read them
 
Am
Some of the folks I used to know would see and start believing
 
C                             G/B     
That I would pass them by on streets and never reach to greet them
 
Am
I still remember folks even though I rarely meet them
 
C                             G/B     
Don´t you know I miss the times when we used to hang
 
Am
Before twenty deep depended on a single man
 
C                             G/B     
Before a single heart was broken by a single blow
 
Am
Before all our careers depended on a single show 



[Chorus]
F                            G
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home 

Em                     Am
Now I got a lot of cash and I'm on a road
 
F                     G
I realize privacy´s becoming difficult
 
Em                        Am
It´s all right now but what about when I´m old
 
F                        G
I know my good friends now they´ll last 

Em                      Am
the same ones that stood by me when my daddy past 

F                      G
All I know is that we´ll never really be alone 

Em                           Am
Cause we got a lot of love and a happy home 


C G/B Am
C G/B Am



[Verse]
C                               G/B    
I write a lot of songs will anybody ever read them 

Am
You hear them on the radio but will you really read them 

C                              G/B     
Why do we have our idols and why do we wanna be them 

Am
After we see them on TV we really wanna meet them 

C                               G/B    
Don´t you think they miss the time when they used to hang
 
Am
Before a fan base depended on a single man
 
C                             G/B     
Before a single heart was broken by a single show

Am
Who´s gonna stand who´s gonna fall I really wanna know 



[Chorus]
F                               G
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home
 
Em                            Am
My daddy use to play me vinyl but now daddy´s gone
 
F                             G
I used to practice with my mommy on the piano
 
Em                            Am
I still get nervous every time I know she´s at a show 

F                           G
Now my family comes first before everyone
 
Em                        Am
I had the perfect dad I wanna be the perfect son
 
F                       G
Though I really feel sometimes I am on my own
 
Em                      Am
I know I got a lot of love and a happy home