INTRO:  [guitar]
G5  D  Cadd9  `
         Mmm____
G5  D  Cadd9  `
Mmm

VERSE:  [guitar]
G5                D      Cadd9        `
  Tell me how the circle ends there's no beginning
G5                D                Cadd9         `
  Everything that came before will come 'round a-gain and I
Em            D         C             `            D  `
  Look in the mirror my father's eyes look back at me   mmm

VERSE:  [tutti]
G5             D,      Cadd9     `
  He gave me a road to choose he gave me freedom
G5               D,               Cadd9       `
  And I pray I'm strong enough to walk in his shoes and I
Em            D,       C                 `          D       `
  I hope that I become half the man he'd want me to be 'cos I feel you

PD-C HORUS:
Am7       `  C                           `
Guiding me__ showin' me the way when I'm misdirected I
C                          `             D       `
Know you're not here but I feel connected__ 'cos everything

CHORUS:
Am7       `            C         `
That I am comes from a better man__ and
G                  `            D        `
All that I've said and I've done__ can't rewrite my
Am7     `               C         `
History right there for all to see__
C           `           Am  `
I'm just my father's son
[breakdown]
Cadd9       (M7#11)     C5  `
Taught me to walk now I run

D- INTRO:  [guitar]
G5  D       Cadd9  `
      Now I run

VERSE:  [tutti]
G5                 D,      Cadd9  `
  Sometimes when I lose my-self   in my weakness
G5               D,                 Cadd9   `
  I can feel the touch of his unmis-takable hands and they're
Em           D,      C             `        D          `
  Pushing me forward back into the circle a-gain and I hope my sons

PD-C HORUS-2:
Am7      `      C       `
See in me__ the kind of man that
C      `    D      `
He was to me__ and everything

CHORUS-SHORT:
Am7       `            C         `
That I am comes from a better man__ and
G                  `            D        `
All that I've said and I've done__ can't rewrite my
Am7     `               C         `
History right there for all to see__
C           `           Am  `
I'm just my father's son__
Cadd9        `
Taught me to walk now I

INTERLUDE: (part verse)                 [breakdown]
Em7  D,  Cadd9  `   Em7   D,   Cadd9  `  D          `
Ruh-_____un       I ruh-__uh-__un          he's the best and the

PD-C HORUS-3:      [build]
Am7        `       C                           `
Worst in me__ some-times I don't know where my common sense is I
C                      `              D  `
May be a sinner but my best defence is__ everything

CHORUS-LONG:
Am7       `            C         `
That I am comes from a better man__ and
G                  `            D        `
All that I've said and I've done__ can't rewrite my
Am7     `               C         `
History right there for all to see__
G           `           D  `
I'm just my father's son__ yeah-__
Am7  `  C  `
eah
C           `           Am  `
I'm just my father's son__
[breakdown]
Cadd9       (M7#11)  C5
Taught me to walk        now I run