Capo: 2

Intro: D  G  D Dsus4 D 

Verse 

     D                                                    Dsus4 
My father had so much to tell me, things he said I had to know 
       G                                                                            D 
Don't make my mistakes, there are rules you can't break but I had to find out on my own 
                                                        G 
Now when I look my own son, I know what my father went thru 
                             D 
There's only so much you can do 
       A7 
You're proud when they walk, and scared when they run 
                                                  D 
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons 


[Refrão]

                         G                            D 
It's a bridge you can't cross, it's a cross you can't bear 
                          A7                                                  D 
It's the words you can't say, things you can't change, no matter how much you care 
                  G                            D 
So you do all you can, but then you gotta let go 
                        A7                                            D 
You're just part of the flow of a river that runs between fathers and sons 

Intro 
        D 
Your mother will try to protect you, and hold you as long as she can 
         G                                                                 D 
But the higher you climb the more you will see that's something that I understand 
                                                                           G 
One day you'll look at your own son, there'll be so much that you want to say 
                               D 
But he'll have to find his own way 
        A7 
On the road he must take, the course he must run 
                                                   D 
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons 


[Refrão]

                        G                              D 
It's a bridge you can't cross, it's a cross you can't bear 
                          A7                                                       D 
It's the words you can't say, the things you can't change, no matter how much you care 
                   G                          D 
So you do all you can, but then you gotta let go 
                         A7                                            G     A7  D 
You're just part of the flow of a river that runs between fathers and sons