Stancliffs Lament chords by James Mcmurtry

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

E    G   D   C
E    G   D   C



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

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

🎸 Chorus:
G               E
It's behind you now
D               C    B A G
It's behind you now
G             E    D
The worst was over long ago
C    B      G       E
Pat yourself on the back
E     D             C      F
Stand up and take a bow

🎸 Interlude:
G     E     D     C



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

🎸 Interlude:
C B A

🎸 Chorus:
G               E
It's behind you now
D               C    B A G
It's behind you now
G             E    D
The worst was over long ago
C    B      G       E
Pat yourself on the back
E     D             C      F
Stand up and take a bow

🎸 Interlude:
G     E     D     C



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

🎸 Chorus:
G               E
It's behind you now
D               C    B A G
It's behind you now
G             E    D
The worst was over long ago
C    B      G       E
Pat yourself on the back
E     D             C      F
Stand up and take a bow

🎸 Outro:
G   E   D   C