Intro
(Spoken)
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My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
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[Verse]
G D Em7 G Bm7 D
My father has an old guitar and he plays me folk songs
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There is nothing I want more than to play like him
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He goes to the basement and builds me a cookie-tin banjo
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He builds me a cookie-tin banjo
D Bm
The strings are made of rubber bands
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The strap is an old red neck tie
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The body is the big round lid of a metal cookie-tin
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When he plays his old guitar I play my cookie-tin banjo
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I play my cookie-tin banjo right along with him
[Interlude]
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B|---7---6---5----4---1---0---3--|
G|---7---5---4----3---2---1---2--|
D|---7---7---6----5---3---2---0--|
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[Verse]
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The more we play together the more I fall in love with music
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And I realize that my banjo is a toy that I've outgrown
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I want strings of steel and something new and something real
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So he gets me a guitar to call my own
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Then dad says to me on this fine afternoon
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D|----5--------------------3--------2------0--|
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Let's sit on the stairs, I'll teach you a tune
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B|--6--------------------5---|
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He hands me a pick, one that's little and black
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B|---4-------------------1------------------0--|
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D|---5-------------------3------------------0--|
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He shows me the g chord, I've never looked back
[Outro]
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Now buried somewhere in a closet is my cookie-tin banjo
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In my arms is my guitar, my greatest source of joy
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For the life that I have now I'm grateful to my father
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He gave the gift of music to his boy
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It started with a simple homemade toy
- 1. Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar C)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Benjamin Scheuer - Cookie-Tin Banjo Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar C)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan