Em (022000)
Am (x02210) Am7 (x02010) or (x02013)
D (xx0232) or D7 (xx0212)
G (320033) G/F# (2x0033) or (2x023x)
G7 (320001) Cmaj7 (x32000) or C (x32010)
Bm (x24432) or D (xx0232) B7 (x21200) or (x21202) or (x24242)
EmAm Am7DG G/F#
EmAmAm7 I bought the paper yesterday
DGG/F# And I saw the obituary
EmAmAm7 And I read of how you died in pain
DGG/F# Well I just couldn't understand it
EmAmAm7 If I could of changed that
DGG/F# Then Lord knows I'd do it now
EmAmAm7 But there is no going back
DGG7 And what's done is done forever
Cmaj7Bm But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt
AmB7 Of every small town institution and every big town flirt
EmAm Am7DG G/F# x2 
EmAmAm7 And I think of what you might have been
DGG/F# A man of such great promise
EmAmAm7 Oh but you seem to forget the dream
DGG/F# And the more you saw you hated
EmAmAm7 But let's not talk of the blame
DGG/F# For what is only natural
EmAmAm7 Like a moth going to a flame
DGG7 You had a dangerous passion
Cmaj7Bm But you were always chained and shackled by the dirt
AmB7 Of every small town institution and every big town flirt
EmAmAm7 All the things that you might have been
DGG/F# But who am I to say?
Em Still I wonder
AmDGG/F#Em If it's in the cold earth you prefer to lay
AmDGG/F#Em If it's in the cold earth you prefer to stay
AmDEm