Standard (EADGBE)
You're a thousand miles away-ay,
(Doo-doo.)(Rat-a-tat-tat.)
bu-u-t I still have your love to remember you by.
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)(You by.)
Oh, my dar-ar-ar-arling, dry your eyes,
(Rat-a-tat-tat-tat.)(Your eyes.)
daddy's coming home soon.
(Whoo-hooo-hooo, hoo-hooo, hoo-hooo.)
On my knees e-every day-ay,
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)(All I do.)
all I do is pray, baby, just for you.
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)((For you.)
Hope you a-a-a-always want me, too,
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)((Me too.)
daddy's coming home soon.
(Whoo-hooo-hooo, woo-ooo.)
Chorus
It may be on a Sunday morning.
(Doo-ooo.)
It may be on a Tuesday afternoon.
(Doo-ooo.)
But no matter what the day is,
(Doo-ooo.)
I'm going to make it (doo wah.)my business
(doo wah.)
to get home soon.
(Rad-a, rad-a, rad-a, rad-a.)
You're a thousand miles away-ay,
(Doo-doo.)(Rat-a-tat-tat.)
bu-u-t I still have your love to remember you by.
(Rat-a-tat-tat.)(You by.)
Oh, my dar-ar-ar-arling, dry your eyes,
(Rat-a-tat-tat-tat.)(Your eyes.)
daddy's coming home soon.
(Whoo-hooo-hooo, hoo-hooo, hoo-hooo.)
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.