Going About My Father's Business
4/4 time, except bars marked * which are 2/4
E----|-----5-----------|-----5-------7-5-|-----5-----------|-----5-------7-5-|
B----|-5-7---7---5-----|-5-7---7---5-----|-5-7---7---5-----|-5-7---7---5-----|
G--7-|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|D        |         |         |         |          |          |          |         |
 (Guitar cont sim)

||:D              |                 |G        |D               |              |
   Standing in the darkness watching while you sleep            I can hear you

|                |G      |D           |A           |*      |G                 |*   |
 softly breathing while I creep             Going a-bout my father's business

|A            |*       |G           |*     |D                  |G               |
      Doing my father's time                        What's done to me I'll do to
 ____________________________________  _________________________________________
|1.                                  ||2.
|D       |        |         |       :||D         |          |G                  |
 mine                                  mine                         Know them by
 _______________________________________________________________________________ 

|A         D         |G                |A         D         |G                  |
 what they do                Let no one speak for you                Just this I
 __________________________________________________________________________________

|A      D        |Em              |G            |               |D        |        |
 beg of you          Forgive me                    Forgive me
 ______________________________________________________  __________
                                                       ||3.
|         |          |          |          |          :||D         |               |
                                                         mine           What's done

|G               |D            |                   |G               |D             |
 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