Daddy Frank Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
Daddy Frank
Written and Recorded by Merle Haggard
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Daddy Frank played the guitar and the French harp
Sister played the ringing tambou
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Mama couldn't hear our pretty music
She read our lips and helped the family
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sing
That little band was all a part of living
And our only means of living at the
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And it wasn't like no normal family combo
Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was
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blind
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Frank and mama counted on each
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Their one and only weakness made them
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strong
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Mama did the driving for the
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family
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And Frank made a living with a
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song
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Home was just a camp along the
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highway
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A pick-up bed was where we bedded
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down
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Don't ever once remember going
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hungry
But I remember
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mama
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cooking
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on the
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ground
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Don't remember how they got ac
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quainted
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can't recall just how it came to
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be
There
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had to be some special help from
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someone
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blessed be the one that let it
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be
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Fever caused my mama's loss of
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hearing
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Daddy Frank was born without his
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And mama needed someone she could
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lean
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And I be
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lieve the
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guitar
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man was
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right
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Daddy Frank?
- The song Daddy Frank was sang by Merle Haggard.
Who is Merle Haggard?
- Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti-Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
