Full Time Loser Chords by Jesse Howard

_ [F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B]
Just a baby holding mama real [G#] tight in the [G#m] moonlight, lying in her [E] bed.
I say, mama, [F#] please don't cry.
_ _ [B]
What's wrong, isn't daddy?
Will [G#m] he be coming home tonight?
She said, no, [E] son, _ he'll be [F#] gone a while.
_ [G#m] Then the days turned into [E] months on end.
_ [B]
And I said, mama, when's he [F#] coming home?
_ [G#m] She said, forget him, son.
You [E] got a long life to run.
_ [B]
You'll be starting school [F#] before long.
I [B]
met my [F#] teacher by my desk like the [G#m] rest of the kids on that first day.
[E] _
Settle down now, [F#] kids, and listen.
_ _ [B]
Now, [F#] y'all, when I call your [G#m] name, I want you to stand up and say
[E]
where you're from and what your daddy does [F#] for a living.
I [G#m] remember this one kid.
He [E] stood up and said, _ [B]
my dad's a fireman, [F#] always ready.
_ [G#m] When it got to my turn, I can feel [E] my little girl heart burn.
_ [B]
She said, all right, now, [F#] what's your daddy?
I [B] said, never ready.
[F#] And that was [G#m] pretty much steady.
_ _ [E] _
He's been called the [F#] devil's right hand.
A [B] long-gone lover [F#] of my [G#m] dear sweet mother, _ _ [E] _
_ more than she [F#] could stand.
A [B] joker and a [F#] fooler, a [G#m] smoker and a boozer, _ _ [E] _
a part-time [F#] gambling man,
and a [B] full-time loser.
[F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B]
He's tough [F#] enough, growing up, not to [G#m] mention all the breaking up grown-ups do.
[E]
Gives a kid only half a [F#] chance to make it.
_ [B]
Mama [F#] cried and she tried her [G#m] best with me, but could never break through.
[E]
If there was a rope, I was [F#] going to break it.
_ [G#m] It was bad at first, [E] and then the bad got worse.
_ [B]
Until before long, I was a [F#] wanted man.
_ [G#m] And then the judge told me, I'm letting [E] you off easy.
_ _ [B]
With only ten short years, [F#] my friend, _ _ [B] I shook the [F#] hand of a man that I met
[G#m] two days into my ten years.
[E]
Without ever saying, he [F#] already knew my name.
[B] I asked him how, [F#] and he smiled and said, I [G#m] know my own son anywhere.
_ [E]
Damn, look at you, man.
[F#] You sure ain't changed.
I know it [G#m] must have been hard, son, with [E] your own life to run.
_ _ [B]
But I want to know every minute [F#] I missed.
_ [G#m] When it got to my turn, I can feel [E] my old, broke heart burn.
_ [B]
He asked, why are you in a place [F#] like this?
Well, you never [B] got me ready, [F#] and you broke my [G#m] heart steady.
_ _ _ [E]
Until I was caught in the devil's [F#] right hand.
I'm a long [B] gone lover [F#] of my sweet [G#m] child's mother and [E] _
Lauren Street [F#] Cassatt.
A joker [B] and a fooler, [F#] a smoker [G#m] and a boozer, _ _ [E] _
a part-time [F#] gambling man,
_ and a full [B]-time loser.
_ [F#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ I'm a full [B]-time loser.
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