Chords
A Man Of Great Promise

Key: E

Introduction:

difficulty
intermediate |||||
Em                                                      Am    Am7  
I bought the paper yesterday
                D                              G      G/F#  
And I saw the obituary
                Em                                                         Am      Am7  
And I read of how you died in pain
             D                                                            G         G/F#  
Well I just couldn't understand it
        Em                                                 Am    Am7  
If I could of changed that
             D                                    G            G/F#  
Then Lord knows I'd do it now
          Em                                            Am    Am7  
But there is no going back
                             D                              G                         G7  
And what's done is done forever
C7+                                                                      Bm  
But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt
Am                                                                                         B7  
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt
Em         Am  Am7      D      G  G/F#x2  
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                Em                                                                      Am      Am7  
And I think of what you might have been
     D                                            G                 G/F#  
A man of such great promise
                        Em                                                 Am         Am7  
Oh but you seem to forget the dream
                     D                                         G         G/F#  
And the more you saw you hated
                          Em                                    Am         Am7  
But let's not talk of the blame
          D                              G              G/F#  
For what is only natural
                  Em                                    Am         Am7  
Like a moth going to a flame
          D                                      G                         G7  
You had a dangerous passion
C7+                                                                      Bm  
But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt
Am                                                                                         B7  
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt
Em                                                         Am                              Am7  
All the things that you might have been
          D                            G         G/F#  
But who am I to say?
                     Em  
Still I wonder
                     Am                                         D                                    G      G/F#      Em  
If it's in the cold earth you prefer to lay
                     Am                                         D                                 G         G/F#    Em  
If it's in the cold earth you prefer to stay
Am         D         Em