Dallas Green - The Grand Optimist Chords

_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] I fear I'll die [Bm] from complications
_ _ [Dm] Complications [E] due to things that I'm [Bm] left undone
That [D] all my debts will be [E] left unpaid
[Bm] Feel like a cripple without a cane
[D] I'm like a jack of all [A] trades
Who's a [Bm] master of none
Then _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [D] there's my father
[E] He's always looking [Bm] on the bright side
[D] Saying things [A] like
Son, life just ain't [Bm] that hard
He [D] is the great optimist
[B] I am the world's poor pessimist
[F#m] You give him button some [A] time
And he will [Bm] escape unscarred
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ I guess I'll [Bm] take after my father
I _ _
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ guess I'll [Bm] take after my mother _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [D] _ [A] But I used to be [B] quite resilient
_ [D] Gained no strength from counting the beads on [Bm] a rosary
_ [D] Now the wound has [A] begun to turn
[Bm] Another lesson that has gone unlearned
[D] But this is not a [A] cry for pity or [B] for sympathy
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] I guess I'll take after my father _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ I guess I'll [B] take after my father _ _ _ _
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