JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Merle Ronald Haggard adalah musisi country yang telah berkarier di dunia musik selama 50 tahun.
Ia memiliki lagu populer berjudul "Daddy Frank" yang rilis pada 1971 dalam album Let Me Tell You About a Song.
Lagu ini menjadi singel kesepuluhnya yang berhasil menduduki peringkat pertama dalam Billboard Hot Country Song.
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Simak lirik dan chord lagu "Daddy Frank" dari Merle Haggard berikut ini.
D
Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,
A
Sister played the ringing tambourine
Mama couldn't hear our pretty music,
D
She read our lips and helped the family sing
D
That little band was all a part of living,
A
And our only means of living at the time
And it wasn't like no normal family combo,
D
Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was blind
Bm D
Frank and mama counted on each other
Bm D
Their one and only weakness made them strong
G D
Mama did the driving for the family,
E A
And Frank made a living with a song
Bm D
Home was just a camp along the highway
Bm D
A pick-up bed was where we bedded down
G D
Don't ever once remember going hungry,
D G D A D
But I remember mama cooking on the ground
D
Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,
A
Sister played the ringing tambourine
Mama couldn't hear our pretty music,
D
She read our lips and helped the family sing
D
That little band was all a part of living,
A
And our only means of living at the time
And it wasn't like no normal family combo,
D
Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was blind
G D
Don't remember how they got acquainted
G Bm
I can't recall just how it came to be
G D
There had to be some special help from someone,
Bm A
And blessed be the one that let it be
G D
Fever caused my mama's loss of hearing
G Bm
Daddy Frank was born without his sight
G D
And mama needed someone she could lean on,
D G D A D Bb
And I believe the guitar man was right
Eb
Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp,
Bb
Sister played the ringing tambourine
Mama couldn't hear our pretty music,
F
She read our lips and helped the family sing
Eb
That little band was all a part of living,
Bb
And our only means of living at the time
And it wasn't like no normal family combo,
Eb
Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was blind