Drop D Tuning


       G          D           A       D
I was watchin' cartoons on a Saturday morning
       G           A       D
And I heard daddy start the truck
        G                         D
I came runnin' from the house and waved him down
             A                    D
Cause he was makin' a run to the dump


G                                D
We watched the Bears and licked ice cream cones
G                     D
Take a little walk around
G                         Bm
I'll never forget what my daddy said
           A                          D
The day we pulled that bike from the ground


                   G                      D
He said one man's trash is another man's gold
         G                        D
If it's thrown away it's free to take
         Bm                    A
A little oil she'll be good to go
               G
So I rode that bicycle home
                  A
Thumbs up, daddy honkin'? on the horn


         G         D            A      D
I got my first job workin' on a dairy farm
        G          (A)       D
Drivin' tractor and bailin' hay
            G               D
I'd have to circle around a bog in the ground
             A            D
Where sat an old Mustang ?58

    G                     D
One evenin' I asked that farmer
          G                     D
Why that car was just wastin' away
                G                                         Bm
He said you can have it for free it don't mean nothin' to me
    A                   D
And I couldn't help but think

          G                       D
One man's trash is another man's gold
                   G                      D
What someone will throw away is a crying shame
      Bm                 A
So I towed that Mustang home
                    G
Till she could be restored
                      A
I got that engine to roar

And boy did that engine roar

(Instrumental Break)

          G              D      A        D
It was an awkward blind date we met at a park
            G            A      D
She had her little girl taggin along
    G                           D
Her beautiful smile hadn't been out in a while
          A                   D
She was a hard working single mom

     G                  D
In time I learned he'd left her
          G                 D
He said I'm just way too young
      G                      Bm
To be having a kid, I'm not ready for this
        A                   D
If you keep it I'm good as gone?

                 G                      D
He never looked back as she watched him go
                 G                           D
She stood there crying in the rain till one January day
           A
She had a beautiful baby girl
            D                       G
Tonight I tuck her in and read her stories
             Bm             A       G
And hold her mama while the sunset glows
             D     A                  D
My two arms full       of this man's gold
                   G               D
What some men will throw away is a crying shame
            Bm       A     G
Those girls make our house a home
              A
Yeah my cup overflows
                  G
With this man's gold
             D
This man's gold