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I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye
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Cause fighting was against the rules and it didn't matter why
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When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed
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Then stood there almost trembling and waited for the worst
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He (I, they) said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
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A secret that my daddy said was just between us
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You see daddy's don't just love their children every now and then
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It's a love without end, amen It's a love without end, amen
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When I became a father in the spring of '81
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There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son
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And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end
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I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him
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He (I, they) said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
G5 A5
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
G5 A5 D5 G5
You see daddy's don't just love their children every now and then
D5 A5 D5 A5 D5 E5
It's a love without end, amen It's a love without end, amen
Slide up one full scale for last verse and chorus
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Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates
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When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake
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If they knew half the things I've done they'll never let me in
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Then a somewhere from the other side and I heard these words again
E5 A5 E5
He (I, they) said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A5 B5
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
A5 B5 E5 A5
You see daddy's don't just love their children every now and then
E5 B5 E5 B5 E5
It's a love without end, amen It's a love without end, amen