The Randall Knife Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
My father had [D]a Randall
[Em]knife
My mother gave it to [A]him
When he went off to WWII
[Em]To save us a[G]ll f[F]rom ruin[Em][D]
If you've ever held a Randall knife
[Em]Then you know my fathe[A]r well[Em][A]
If a better blade was ever made
It was [Em]probably forged in hell
[D]

[Verse 2]
My father was a good [Em]man
A lawyer [D]by his [Em]trade[A]
And only once did I ever see
Him mis[Em]use the b[G]lade[Em][D]
It almost cut his thumb [Em]off
When he took it for a [A]tool
The knife [Em]was made for dark[A]er things
[Em]And you could [G]not [Em]bend the rules
[D]

[Verse 3]
He let me take it camping [Em]once
On a Boy Scout jamboree
[A]And I broke a half an inch off
Trying to [Em]stick it in [D]a tree
I hid it from him for [Em]a while
But the [G]knife and he [Em]were one[A]
He put it in his bottom drawer
Without [Em]a hard word on[A]e
[D]

[Verse 4]
There it slept and there it stayed
[Em]For twenty some odd year[G]s[Em][A]
Sort of like Excalibur
[Em]Except waiting for a tear

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 5]
My father died [D]when I was forty
[Em]And I couldn't find a way to c[A]ry
Not because I didn't love him
Not [Em]because he didn't [D]try
I'd cried for every lesser [Em]thing
Whiskey, pain [A]and beauty
But he deserved a better tear
And [G]I was not q[Em]uite r[D]eady

[Verse 6]
[D]
So we took his ashed out [Em]to sea
And poured `em off the [A]stern[Em][A]
And threw the roses in the wake
Of [Em]everything we'd [D]learned
When we got back to [Em]the house
They asked me what [G]I wanted[Em][A]
Not the lawbooks not the watch
[Em]I need the things he's haunted
[D]

[Verse 7]
[D]My hand burned for the Randall knife
[Em]There in the bottom draw[A]er
And I found a [D]tear for my father's [A]life
[Em]And all that it stood [D]for

[Outro 1]
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