verse 1 
C 
   This isn't happening 
 C/A 
Inútil! Useless.  
C 
  Just like my father was before me: 
 C/A 
Inútil. Useless.  
C 
  And every day he cut the cane 
C/D                                  C/A 
    He came home late and prayed for rain      
           C/G 
Prayed for rain 
C 
And on the days when nothing came 
C/D                                 C/A 
   My father's face was lined with shame 
    C/Ab           C/G 
He'd sit me down beside him and he'd say: 


[Refrão]
 
F                  G 
  My father was a farmer  
G                 Am 
His father was a farmer 
                   C 
And you will be a farmer 
C               
But I told him  
F                           G 
"Papi, I'm sorry I'm going farther" 
G                 Abaug 
"I'm getting on a plane 
                            Bb 
"And I am gonna change the world some day!" 
                  C 
And he slapped my face 


verse 2 

C/D 
    He stood there staring at me 
C/A         G 
    Useless 
C 
Today 
C/D 
    My daughter's home and I am 
Am        Gsus4  G 
   Useless 
C                  C/D 
And as a baby she amazed  
C/D                                 C/A  G 
Me with the things she learned each day 
C 
  She used to stay on the fire escape 
C/D                                C/A 
    While all the other kids would play 
   C/Ab            C/G 
And I would stand beside her and I'd say 


[Refrão]
 
F                     G 
I'm proud to be your father 
G                      Am 
Cuz' you work so much harder 
Am                    C 
And you are so much smarter 
C 
Than I was at your age 
F 
  And I always knew 
G 
  That she would fly away 
Abaug 
      That she was gonna change the 
Fmaj7/Bb      Am 
World    some day 


OUTRO 
       Am 
I will not 
       Am/C 
Be the reason 
        Am/F            Am/E 
That my family can't succeed 
       Am 
I will do 
        Am/C 
What it takes 
             Am/F            Am/E 
They'll have everything they need 
          Am 
Or all my work 
       Am/C 
All my life 
      Am/D      Am/E 
Everything I've sacrificed 
Am/G   Am/G 
Will have been  
Am Am/C C/F  Am 
Useless