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)
Em    Am Am7   D   G G/F#
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 
Em    Am Am7   D   G G/F# x2
      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 
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