My Father – Nina Simone · Song Chords

My Father

Nina Simone · C

Real Key

C

C

0.2x

120

BPM

1

2

3

4

Rhythm

2/4

3/4

4/4

5/4

6/8

7/8

No Accent

Downbeat

Backbeat

All Equal

1 & 3

Verse 1

[F] [Dm]

My father always promised me

[Gm] [C]

That we would live in France

[F] [Dm]

We'd go boating on the Seine

[Gm7] [C]

And I would learn to dance

Verse 2

[Dm] [G7]

We lived in Ohio then

[C] [Cm]

He worked in the mines

[F7]

On his dreams like boats we knew

[Bb]

He would sail in time

[F]

In time

Verse 3

[F] [Dm]

My sisters all grew up and went away

[Gm] [C2]

To Denver and Cheyenne

[F] [Dm]

Marrying their grownup dreams

[Gm] [C]

The lilacs and the man

Verse 4

[Dm] [G]

I stayed behind the youngest still

[C] [Cm]

And I danced alone

[F7]

Hoping that my father's dreams

[Bb]

Would someday take me home

[F]

Take me home

Verse 5

[F] [Dm]

And I live in Paris now

[Gm] [C] [F] [Dm]

My children dance and sing

[Gm]

Word’s of a miner's tongue

[C7]

A language they've never seen

Verse 6

[Dm] [G7]

I sail my memories of home

[C] [Cm]

Like boats across the Seine

[F7]

And watch my father‘s eyes

[Bb]

Watch the setting sun

[F] [F]

Set in my father's eyes — again

Chords Used (12)

Guitar

Ukulele

F

1 / 5

Dm

1 / 4

Gm

1 / 4

C

1 / 4

Gm7

1 / 5

G7

1 / 4

Cm

1 / 4

F7

1 / 4

Bb

1 / 4

C2

N/A

G

1 / 5

C7

1 / 4

Song Info

Real Key

C

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