Father and Son chords
Cat Stevens 1970 (Tea for the Tillerman)

   

(hold the C chord while picking)

e|-------0-|
B|---1-----|
G|-0---0---|
D|---------|
A|---------|
E|---------| 3

x

 

             
It's not time 

             
to make a chan

             
ge, just relax

          
, take it easy
             
You're still y

              
oung, that's y

    
our fault
            
There's so muc

              
h you have to 


know
             
Find a girl, s

             
ettle down, if

             
 you want, you

     
 can marry
             
Look at me, I 

            
am old, but I'

       
m happy
             
I was once lik

            
e you are now,

             
 and I know th

           
at its not eas

y
             
to be calm, wh

            
en you've foun

              
d something go

      
ing on
              
But take your 

             
time, think a 

            
lot, why think

             
 of everything

        
 you've got
             
For you will s

              
till be here t

            
omorrow, but y

             
our dreams may

 
 not

   

(hold the C chord while picking)

e|-------0-|
B|---1-----|
G|-0---0---|
D|---------|
A|---------|
E|---------|

 

             
How can I try 

            
to explain? Wh

             
en I do he tur

    
ns away again
             
It's always be

            
en the same, s

             
ame old story
             
From the momen

            
t I could talk

             
 I was ordered

    
 to listen
              
Now there's a 

           
way and I know

             
 that I have t

  
o go away
            
I know I have 

      
to go

   

(hold the C chord while picking)

e|-------0-|
B|---1-----|
G|-0---0---|
D|---------|
A|---------|
E|---------| 2

x

                      

  2x

             
It's not time 

             
to make a chan

             
ge, just sit d

            
own take it sl

owly
             
You're still y

              
oung that's yo

   
ur fault
            
There's so muc

              
h you have to 

   
go through
             
Find a girl, s

             
ettle down, if

             
 you want, you

     
 can marry
             
Look at me, I 

            
am old, but I'

       
m happy

             
All the times 

            
that I've crie

             
d, keeping all

              
 the things I 


knew inside
             
It's hard, but

            
 it's harder t

       
o ignore it
             
If they were r

            
ight, I'd agre

             
e, but it's th

              
em they know, 

    
not me
              
Now there's a 

           
way, and I kno

             
w that I have 

   
to go away
            
I know I have 

   
to go

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