Stancliffs Lament chords by James Mcmurtry

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

E MajorE  G+G  D MajorD  C majorC
E MajorE  G+G  D MajorD  C majorC


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

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

🎸 Chorus:
G+G        E MajorE
It's behind you now
D MajorD        C majorC  BB A augmentedA G+G
It's behind you now
G+G       E MajorE  D MajorD
The worst was over long ago
C majorC  BB   G+G    E MajorE
Pat yourself on the back
E MajorE   D MajorD       C majorC   FF
Stand up and take a bow

🎸 Interlude:
G+G   E MajorE   D MajorD   C majorC

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

🎸 Interlude:
C majorC BB A augmentedA

🎸 Chorus:
G+G        E MajorE
It's behind you now
D MajorD        C majorC  BB A augmentedA G+G
It's behind you now
G+G       E MajorE  D MajorD
The worst was over long ago
C majorC  BB   G+G    E MajorE
Pat yourself on the back
E MajorE   D MajorD       C majorC   FF
Stand up and take a bow

🎸 Interlude:
G+G   E MajorE   D MajorD   C majorC


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

🎸 Chorus:
G+G        E MajorE
It's behind you now
D MajorD        C majorC  BB A augmentedA G+G
It's behind you now
G+G       E MajorE  D MajorD
The worst was over long ago
C majorC  BB   G+G    E MajorE
Pat yourself on the back
E MajorE   D MajorD       C majorC   FF
Stand up and take a bow

🎸 Outro:
G+G  E MajorE  D MajorD  C majorC