From: Jason Wendtland <wendtlaj@uwec.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 9:09 AM
Subject: That's My Job-by Conway Twitty


That's my job
By: Conway Twitty

Key of A

A F#m D   E A
I woke up crying late at night when I was very young
D A     D     E
I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone
A   F#m D    E   A
My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore
     D   A     D     E     A
So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door
      D A     D      A
And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone 
 D A   F#m       E
that way?  Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"


Chorus:
 D    E A    D     E    A D      E
And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do.  Everything I do is
   A    D     E      F#m E D      E      A
because of you, to keep you safe with me.  That's my job you see."

A F#m D E A
Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he
     D A
Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams
D E
We each held for me
A F#m     D       E A
He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out West
 D A
Said, "I could make it out there if I just had the fare.
 D      E   A
I got half, will you loan me the rest."
      D A D A
And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid.  There's no guarentee in the plans
    D    A    F#m  E
I've made.  And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"

Chorus

C#m F#m C#m      D E A
    Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with light
 D      F#m     D    A  E
And I pray someday I might light as bright as he  (is this line right?)


A   F#m D E A
Woke up early one bright fall day and spread the tragic news
      D     A     D      E
After all my travels I settled down within a mile or two
A F#m D    E   A
I make my living with words and rhyme and all this tragic deed
   D    A D   E   A
Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry
     D A    D      A
But I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone this
       D A      F#m  E
way?  How can I come up with a song to say I love you.......?"

Chorus  (omit He said)
D      E       A D E F#m E D E A
Everything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me....

Jason Wendtland