Chet Atkins - I Still Can't Say Goodbye HQ

When I was young, my Dad would say Come on Son let's go out and play
Sometimes it seems like yesterday

And I'd climb up the closet shelf When I was all by my-self
Grab his hat and fix the brim Pretending I was him

No matter how hard I try
No matter how many tears I cry
No matter how many years go by
I still can't say good-bye

He always took care of Mom and me. We all cut down a Christmas tree
He always had some time for me

Wind blows through the trees
Street lights, they still shine bright
Most things are the same
but I miss my Dad to-night

I walked by a Salvation Army store Saw a hat like my daddy wore
Tried it on when I walked in Still trying to be like him

No matter how hard I try
No matter how many years go by
No matter how many tears I cry
I still can't say good-bye

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Music

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• Chet
• Atkins
• acoustic
• Still
• Can't
• Say
• Goodbye

[casper1918]

I lost my Dad when I was 10. That was 50 years ago and I still miss him so much. He was a wonderful dad and I'm blessed for the little time I had him.

[Tom010237]

This beautiful song will always bring out a variety of emotions from everyone who hears

it and it is the kind of song that will linger with you forever. Chet, thank you very much.

Tom, Sparta, New Jersey.

[tigerblue4ever]

@tigerblue4ever oops, forgot, I sure miss ya Pop.

[tigerblue4ever]

Beautiful, simply beautiful.



[moose1952]

I lost me dad just over a year ago. I just happened on to this song while surfing Youtube, and I haven't stopped crying yet.I love you dad, and miss you so very much. Thanks for posting this wonderful video.

[wintershadows]

Powerful.

[msplagman]

It is a WONDERFUL song...I wish it would be released so I could play it in my video I posted in memory of my own dad. One of my favorite songs!!

[kGmusicpage]

That was amazing and i don't even know my dad

[pickelhead007]

thank you for posting this video i miss my dad so much i appreciate when i can see something as beautiful as this to remind me



[jimweesesr]

Fantastic and he is a good singer too.Chet worked with my mom and taught my brother steel guitar in Bostonia Ca around 1952 or so.thanks chet for many good years.

Jim Weese

[jessie11447]

this was the last group of songs my father and listened to on pbs a little more than a year ago he died a week after we watched this together

will always have a special place in my heart thank u mark and chet et al god speed

[fatboy1958]

Dad has been gone for 25 years now. I first heard Chet perform this song on a Conemax Sessions presentation and fell in love with it. It epitomizes my love and yearning for contact with my dad. Excellent!