Between Fathers And Sons Chords

KeyD Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays548

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.

Transpose
D
Text
16
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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  
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante