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Father

	G	D	C	Am7
It's not	time to make a	change, just re	lax, take it	easy

	G	Em	Am	D
you're still	young, that's your	fault, there's so	much you have to	know

	G	D	C	Am7
Find a	girl, settle	down, if you	want, you can	marry

	G	Em	Am	D
Look at	me, I am	old, but I'm	happy

	G	Bm7	C	Am7
I was	once like you are	now, and I	know that's it's not	easy

	G	Em	Am	D
to be	calm when you've	found something	going on

	G	Bm7	C	Am7
But take your	time, think a	lot, think of	everything you've	got

	G	Em	D	G	C
for you will	still be here to	morrow, but your	dreams may	not

Son

	G	Bm	C	Am7
How can	I try to ex	plain, when I	do he turns a	way again

	G	Em	Am	D
It's	always been the	same, same old	story.

	G	Bm	C	Am7
From the	moment I could	talk, I was	ordered to	listen

	G	Em	D	G	D	C	G	C
now there's a	way and I	know that I	have to	go away. I	know I	have to	go

Father

	G	D	C	Am7
It's not	time to make a	change, just re	lax, take it	slowly

	G	Em	Am	D
you're still	young, that's your	fault, there's so	much you have to	go through

	G	D	C	Am7
Find a	girl, settle	down, if you	want, you can	marry

	G	Em	Am	D
Look at	me, I am	old, but I'm	happy

Son

	G	Bm	C	Am7
All the	times that I've	tried keeping	all the things I	knew inside

	G	Em	Am	D
It's	hard but it's	harder to i	gnore it

	G	Bm7	C	Am7
If they were	right, I'd a	gree, but it's	them they know not	me

	G	Em	D	G	D	C	G
now there's a	way and I	know that I	have to	go away. I	know I	have to	go

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bobkosin (report comment to admin):

Instead of Bm7, D sounds better.

seren1516 (report comment to admin):

no it doesn't!

lucem (report comment to admin):

the intro sounds well with something like:  G-C then: 30 10 23 15 23 and repeat. (23 means second string an third fret etc...)

karachi_chi (report comment to admin):

Bm7 sounds perfect!

Myusollo (report comment to admin):

I'm actually a little bit torn on it being a 7.  It's a toss-up for me, but I keep finding myself thinking just regular Bm sounds better.

Mike Post (report comment to admin):

Excellent!  Just a couple of words in the lyrics...second last verse should be "just sit down, take it slowly" and last verse should be "all the times that I've cried keeping all the things I knew inside" Changing tried to cried in the last verse totally changes the meaning.  Yusuf's music will live forever!