Cifras
The Grand Optimist

Tom: D

Introdução:

 C                   G/B                         Am 
I fear I'm dying from complications
             C                           G/B                                       Am 
Complications due to things that I've left undone
                         C                                       G/B 
That all my debts will be left unpaid
                         Am 
Feel like a cripple without a cane
                       C                           G/B 
I'm like a jack of all trades
                                     Am 
Who's a master of none

                                   C 
Then there's my father
 G/B                                                   Am 
He's always looking on the bright side
               C                       G/B                                             Am 
Saying things like "son life just ain't that hard"
                     C                   G/B 
He is the grand optimist
                   Am 
I am the world's poor pessimist
                           C 
You give him buttons sometimes
         G/B                           Am 
And he will escape unscarred
 Em7/G                                                 Am 
            I guess I take after my mother

 C                   G/B                   Am 
    I used to be quite resilient
                     C                                                 G/B                     Am 
Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary
                   C                                   G/B 
Now the wound has begun to turn
                   Am 
Another lesson that has gone unlearned
                           C                         G/B                             Am 
But this is not a cry for pitty or for sympathy
 Em7/G                                                   Am 
            I guess I take after my mother