Going About My Father's Business
4/4 time, except bars marked * which are 2/4
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(Guitar cont sim)
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Standing in the darkness watching while you sleep I can hear you
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softly breathing while I creep Going a-bout my father's business
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Doing my father's time What's done to me I'll do to
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mine mine Know them by
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what they do Let no one speak for you Just this I
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beg of you Forgive me Forgive me
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mine What's done
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to me I'll do to mine What's done to me I'll do to mine
||:D | | | :||Rpt ad lib
2.I woke up one summer morning he was gone
Soft light through the window breaking for my son
Going about my father's business
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
3.Someday when we sign the treaty I'll be home
War is long and lasts for ever and I'm your own
Going about my father's business
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
Paul Kelly Guitar