A Man Of Great Promise

	  		

Intro: 

Em    Am Am7   D   G G/F# 

verse 1 : 

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  




Cmaj7                           Bm  
But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt 
Am                                  B7 
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt 
 


Solo: 

Em    Am Am7   D   G G/F# x2 


verse 2 

      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 




Cmaj7                           Bm  
But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt 
Am                                  B7 
Of every small town institution and every big town flirt  



Outro: 

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