G      D        Em
The Father-Daughter Dance
     C        G     D
Was only two weeks away
      C         D           G         Em
They asked her if she was planning to go
    C      G              D
The only thing she could say was

    C        D    G
My daddy is not around
       C          G           D           Em
He’s locked in a jail on the outskirts of town
    C            D             G       Em
I wish we could dance on that Saturday night
    C            G        D
But I’ll have to turn it down
C          D            G
’Cause my daddy is not around

     G           D            Em
The little girl wrote to the sheriff
     C            G  D
Her request was unusual
      C       D         G         Em
Would you be willing to put on a dance
          C       G              D
Since my father cannot come to school?
    C        D    G
My daddy is not around
      C              G           D            Em
He’s locked in your jail on the outskirts of town
   C             D              G       Em
I wish we could dance on that Saturday night
        C             G       D
Please don’t make me turn it down
C                   D     G
’Cause my daddy is not around

     G         D           Em
The dance was held at the prison
     C            G        D     C
Her dad wore a shirt and tie He told her
      D            G         Em
“You look like a princess to me
    C            G      D
May I have this dance tonight?”

           C          D            G
And their feet never touched the ground
      C                G              D          Em
They forgot where they were on the outskirts of town
           C        D            G        Em
They were dancing together on a Saturday night
   C         G          D
He spun her around and around
           C           D          G
And their feet never touched the ground

G          D           Em
After the final song played
         C          G     D
And the school bus drove away
Em            D
Alone in the dark
            G        C
His heart broken in two
      C     G       D
Her daddy began to pray

                C              D     G
Dear Jesus, my girl needs her dad around
      C          G            D           Em
Not locked in a jail on the outskirts of town
C              D           G        Em
Then we could dance every Saturday night
   C             G       D
I don’t want to let her down
         C       G     D
Help me turn my life around
           C              D    G
’Cause my girl needs her dad around