Surviving Twin chords by Loudon Wainwright Iii

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G+G D MajorD


Verse 1:
D MajorD                  G+G
   Last week I attended a family affair
   A augmentedA              G+G        D MajorD
And a few remarked upon my recent growth of facial hair
D MajorD                             G+G
You look just like your father did with that beard someone said
  A augmentedA             G+G          D MajorD
I answered back I am him even though my old man's dead
 A augmentedA         G+G D MajorD        A augmentedA
I didn't want to be him well at first I did
A augmentedA            G+G    D MajorD   A augmentedA   D MajorD
When I loved and looked up to him as a little kid

Verse 2:
D MajorD                           G+G
He sent me to his old school I was a numeral with his name
    A augmentedA                  G+G         D MajorD
And he gave me this gold signet ring and he wore one just the same
D MajorD                          G+G
And I guess that I believed him and probably it was true
    A augmentedA                  G+G         D MajorD
When he told me I was just like him, that's what some fathers do
   A augmentedA        G+G      D MajorD       A augmentedA
But a father's always older and my dad was rather tall
A augmentedA       G+G           D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD
Who says size doesn't matter, he was big and I was small


Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G+G D MajorD


Verse 3:
D MajorD                      G+G
I needed to be big enough to be someone someday
   A augmentedA                 G+G      D MajorD
And I learned I had to beat him and that was the only way
D MajorD                              G+G
I learned I had to fight him, my own flesh, blood, bone and kin
   A augmentedA               G+G        D MajorD
But I felt I was just like him can a man's son be his twin
   A augmentedA        G+G       D MajorD       A augmentedA
First we fought for my mother, that afforded little joy
A augmentedA             G+G        D MajorD      A augmentedA   D MajorD
When he left she was heart broken and I was still their little boy

Verse 4:
D MajorD                        G+G
But I started to get bigger and to win the ugly game
    A augmentedA             G+G      D MajorD
When I made a little money and I got a bit of fame
D MajorD                             G+G
And I saw how this could wound him, yes this could do the trick
    A augmentedA              G+G      D MajorD
And if I made it big enough I could kill him off quick
    A augmentedA       G+G      D MajorD          A augmentedA
But how can you murder someone in a way that they don't die
A augmentedA        G+G          D MajorD  A augmentedA D MajorD
I didn't want to kill him, that would be suicide


Instrumental:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G+G D MajorD


Verse 5:
D MajorD                          G+G
I got frightened so I backed off I let up and I was through
      A augmentedA             G+G         D MajorD
And in the end he did himself in usually that's what we do
D MajorD                     G+G
I'm alive and he is dead and neither of us won
   A augmentedA                G+G       D MajorD
It's spoiled for the victor once the vanquishing is done
 A augmentedA       G+G         D MajorD        A augmentedA
A majorA man becomes immortal through his daughter or his son
A augmentedA           G+G     D MajorD    A augmentedA   D MajorD
But when he fears his legacy, a man can come undone


Outro:
D MajorD                        G+G
And the beard is a reminder I'm a living part of him
 A augmentedA                  G+G       D MajorD
Although my father's dead and gone I'm his surviving twin

D MajorD G+G

 A augmentedA                   G+G       D MajorD