Daddy's World

© 1989 Stephen Savitzky. CC-by-nc-sa.

For Katy

I wrote this one for my older daughter based mostly on some of her favorite computer games.


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last 4 lines of refrain inst. as intro.

A Asus2 A
  Hey, girl,  are you  weeping
D Dsus2 A
'Cause it's too  rainy for  playing  outside?
D A
  Let's turn on the  magic carpet
E7 E6 E7
And  go for an after noon  ride...
A D A
  I know a couple of  games to  play
D5 D Dsus2 A
And some  places you  haven't  yet    seen;
D Cmaj7
  Come visit your  daddy's world
E7 A
on the  other side of the  screen.

D Dsus2 D5 D
  I can't bring  you the  silver  moon
A D
To  hold in the palm of your  hand;
A D Dsus2
But  I can take you to a  world I've  made
A Asus2 E7
Out of  dreams and a few  grains of  sand;
A D5 D
  I can't buy you the  stars to  wear
A D
Like  gems in your bonny brown  hair;
A D Dsus2
  All I have is a  magic mir ror
E7 A
And  castles in the  air.
A Asus2 A
  Say hello t o the cr eatures here:
D Dsus2 A
The  walrus, the  elephant  too;
D A
  Go visit the  dragon's lair,
E7 E6 E7
He's  waiting there  for  you...
A D A
  Play cards with a  magical  deck;
D5 D Dsus2 A
Learn the  names of the  planets  and    stars;
D Cmaj7
  Take a ride on a  toy balloon,
E7 A
Or a  rocket ship to  Mars.

D Dsus2 D5 D
  I can't bring  you the  silver  moon
A D
To  hold in the palm of your  hand;
A D Dsus2
But  I can take you to a  world I've  made
A Asus2 E7
Out of  dreams and a few  grains of  sand;
A D5 D
  I can't buy you the  stars to  wear
A D
Like  gems in your bonny brown  hair;
A D Dsus2
  All I have is a  magic mir ror
E7 A
And  castles in the  air.
A Asus2 A
  Come look  through the  window
D Dsus2 A
While I  type in a  magical  rhyme.
D A
  I'll show you where the  hypercubes dance
E7 E6 E7
On the  edges of space  and  time.
A D A
  See the curliqued  Mandelbrot  set
D5 D Dsus2 A
Way  down in the  complex  plane. ..
D Cmaj7
  We'll forget about the  world outside,
E7 A
The  thunder and the  rain.

D Dsus2 D5 D
  I can't bring  you the  silver  moon
A D
To  hold in the palm of your  hand;
A D Dsus2
But  I can take you to a  world I've  made
A Asus2 E7
Out of  dreams and a few  grains of  sand;
A D5 D
  I can't buy you the  stars to  wear
A D
Like  gems in your bonny brown  hair;
A D Dsus2
  All I have is a  magic mir ror
E7 A
And  castles in the  air.

A Asus2 A
  Do you wonder  where your  daddy goes
D Dsus2 A
When he's  out of the house  for the  day?
D A
  I walk through my  magic mirror
E7 E6 E7
And  travel far  away 
A D A
  To my world where with  numbers and  words
D5 D Dsus2 A
create things  out of  thin a ir;
D Cmaj7
  There's magic in  Daddy's world
E7 A
And  I can take you  there.

D Dsus2 D5 D
  I can't bring  you the  silver  moon
A D
To  hold in the palm of your  hand;
A D Dsus2
But  I can take you to a  world I've  made
A Asus2 E7
Out of  dreams and a few  grains of  sand;
A D5 D
  I can't buy you the  stars to  wear
A D
Like  gems in your bonny brown  hair;
A D Dsus2
  All I have is a  magic mir ror
E7 A
And  castles in the  air.
D Cmaj7
There's  magic in  Daddy's world
E7 A A^*
And  I can take you  there.
end with \chord{A^*=EAEAC# A}

The imagery in v. 2 comes mostly from Manhole, a HyperCard game for kids on the Macintosh--the family had a Mac II at the time. I wrote the rotating hypercube program that starts v. 3. I thought about calling this song ``The Programmer's Daughter'' but decided I'd leave that for Kanefsky. Although as it turned out Heather Stern wrote that one.