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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.
Recordings:
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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
I 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.
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