Stancliffs Lament

Intro 
E    G   D   C 
E    G   D   C 



E          G 
Too old to work for wages 
D               C 
No time left to kill 
E        G 
Put your eggs in one basket 
D         C 
Mind that basket don't spill 
E                G 
You've got to be successful 
D              C 
Just to be all right 
E                   G 
Lest the old man's ghost comes walking 
D                C 
In the middle of the night 



E           G 
Spend some years in the business 
D         C 
Learn how the big boys play 
E                      G 
Marry your high school sweetheart 
D         C 
Man don't let her get away 
E         G 
And if it don't work out 
D         C 
You can walk away without a stitch 
E               G 
Wreckage in the rearview mirror 
D         C 
Bouncing down a roadside ditch 



G               E 
It's behind you now 
D               C    B A G 
It's behind you now 
G             E    D 
The worst was over long ago 
C    B      G       E 
Pat yourself on the back 
E     D             C      F 
Stand up and take a bow 

Interlude 

G     E     D     C 



E      G 
There's voices all around you 
D                C 
They're yelling Go Team 
E                     G 
You're sitting at the top of the bleachers 
D             C 
Staring at a laptop screen 
E         G 
You can't waste a minute 
D         C 
You can't waste a one 
E               G 
The minutes are bought and paid for 
D                 C 
At least till the job gets done 

Interlude 

C B A 



G               E 
It's behind you now 
D               C    B A G 
It's behind you now 
G             E    D 
The worst was over long ago 
C    B      G       E 
Pat yourself on the back 
E     D             C      F 
Stand up and take a bow 

Interlude 
G     E     D     C 


 
E                G 
They're holding all of your phone calls 
D         C 
But it's no relief 
E                      G 
You're staring out the smoked glass window 
D                       C 
At the cars down on the cloverleaf 
E                   G 
And a picture of a kid with a ball glove 
D              C 
smiling at the lens 
E                G 
And a woman on a sailboat 
D              C 
And all those years you just had to hope they'd bend 
E                       G 
Well you pushed so hard you bent so far 
          D                    C 
That they won't either one get straight again 


 
G               E 
It's behind you now 
D               C    B A G 
It's behind you now 
G             E    D 
The worst was over long ago 
C    B      G       E 
Pat yourself on the back 
E     D             C      F 
Stand up and take a bow 

Outro 

G   E   D   C