That's My Job

Conway Twitty

• Gsus4GGsus4CDGsus4Gsus2G
  P1:
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• GEmi7Cadd9DGG/AG/HCG/HAmi7DGEmi7Cadd9DGCC/HAmi7G/HDG
  S1:
  I woke up crying late at night 

  When I was very young  

  I had dreamed my father 

  Had passed away and gone 

  My world revolved around him 

  I couldn't lay there any--more 

  So I made my way down the mirrored hall 

  And tapped upon his door
• Cadd9G/HAmi7GG/AG/HCadd9G/HAmi7D
  B1:
  And I said Daddy, I'm so afraid 

  How will I go on with you gone that way  

  Don't want to cry anymore so may I stay with you 

  And he said
• DGG/AG/HDGG/AG/HDCCCGG/HCCDEmi7Emi7/DCDG
  R1:
  That's my job  

  That's what I do  

  Everything I do is because of you 

  To keep you safe with me  

  That's my job you see
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  M1:
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• GEmi7DCadd9GCG/HAmi7DGEmi7Cadd9DGCAmi7G/HDG
  S2:
  Later we barely got along 

  This teenage boy and he 

  Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams 

  We each held for me 

  He wanted knowledge and learning 

  I wanted to fly out west 

  Said, I could make it out there if I just had the fare 

  I got half, will you loan me the rest and I said
• Cadd9G/HAmi7GG/AG/HCadd9G/HAmi7D
  B2:
  Daddy, I'm so afraid 

  There's no guarantee in the plans I've made  

  And if I should fail who will pay my way back home 

  And he said
• DGG/AG/HDGG/AG/HDCCCGG/HCCDEmi7Emi7/DCDGG/F♯
  R1:
  That's my job  

  That's what I do  

  Everything I do is because of you 

  To keep you safe with me  

  That's my job you see
• EmiHmiCDGG/AG/HCEAmi7Dsus4D
  B2:
  Every person carves his spot 

  And fills the hole with light  

  And I pray someday I might 

  Light as bright as he
• GEmi7CDGCG/HAmi7DC/ED/F♯GEmi7Cadd9DGCG/HAmi7DG
  S3:
  Woke up early one bright fall day 

  To spread the tragic news 

  After all my travel, I settled down 

  Within a mile or two  

  I make my living with words and rhyme 

  And all this tragedy 

  Should go into my head and out instead 

  As bits of poetry
• Cadd9G/HAmi7GG/AG/HCadd9G/HAmi7D
  B1:
  But I say Daddy, I'm so afraid 

  How will I go on with you gone this way 

  How can I come up with a song to say 

  I love you
• DGG/AG/HDGG/AG/HDCCCGG/HCCDEmi7Emi7/DCDGCDGG/HCCDEmi7Emi7/DCDGG/AG/H
  R1:
  That's my job  

  That's what I do  

  Everything I do is because of you 

  To keep you safe with me  

  That's my job you see  

  Everything I do is because of you 

  To keep you safe with me  

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