Between Fathers And Sons Chords
Between Fathers And Sons by Waylon Jennings is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Dsus4 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D G D Dsus4 D
Verse
D Dsus4
My father had so much to tell me, things he said I had to know
G D
Don't make my mistakes, there are rules you can't break but I had to find out on my own
G
Now when I look my own son, I know what my father went thru
D
There's only so much you can do
A7
You're proud when they walk, and scared when they run
D
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons
G D
It's a bridge you can't cross, it's a cross you can't bear
A7 D
It's the words you can't say, things you can't change, no matter how much you care
G D
So you do all you can, but then you gotta let go
A7 D
You're just part of the flow of a river that runs between fathers and sons
Intro
D
Your mother will try to protect you, and hold you as long as she can
G D
But the higher you climb the more you will see that's something that I understand
G
One day you'll look at your own son, there'll be so much that you want to say
D
But he'll have to find his own way
A7
On the road he must take, the course he must run
D
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons
G D
It's a bridge you can't cross, it's a cross you can't bear
A7 D
It's the words you can't say, the things you can't change, no matter how much you care
G D
So you do all you can, but then you gotta let go
A7 G A7 D
You're just part of the flow of a river that runs between fathers and sons