Name: Dad's Wrong Hand
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: Song about how our parents met.

Dad's Wrong Hand

from Brother Time by Zawacki

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Song about how our parents met.

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Dad’s Wrong Hand Original
Capo 1

Intro: is the chorus G C G C F G C

Part A: Verse 1
C F G
Across the gym dance floor he saw
C F G C
A row of yellow-haired girls four in all
C F G
One flaxen young miss she caught his eye
C F G C
He said I got the meet her... me oh my

Part B:
F C G C
He took his future wife’s hand in his
F C G C
It wasn’t the hand of that flaxen young Miss
F C G C
Oh It was a gaffe oh it was a laugh
F C G C
But with out this slip no kids would he have

Chorus:
G
Dad grabbed the wrong hand!
C
The wrong hand was grabbed
G
Dad grabbed the wrong hand!
C
The wrong hand was grabbed
F G C
But we 5 are all glad for that hand

Part A: Verse 2
C F G
He scudded over through the callow muck
C F G C
to grab the white-lily hand of lady-luck
C F G
She danced with him on that wooden deck
C F G C
He looked in her eyes and said what the heck

Part B:
Chorus:

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from Brother Time, released July 23, 2012
by John

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