Tabbed by: Tom Prest



Tuning: Standard (Capo 3)


Intro: C5 E5 A5 C5 E5 A5

Verse:

C5          E5             A5
I fear I'm dying of complications

      C5              E5                    A5
Complications due to things that I've left undone

            C5                  E5
That all my debts will be left unpaid

            A5
Feel like a cripple without a cane

           C5               E5
I'm like a jack of all trades

                  A5
Who's a master of none


Verse 2:

C5               E5
Then there's my father

A5
He's always looking on the bright side

       C5            E5                       A5
Saying things like "son life just ain't that hard"

          C5            E5
He is the grand optimist

         A5         
I am the world's poor pessimist

             C5                E5
You give him buttons sometimes

                   A5
And he will escape unscarred


Pre-Chorus/Chorus: 

G5                       A5
I guess I take after my mother    x2


I used to be quite resilient
Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary 
Now the wound has begun to turn
Another lesson that has gone unlearned
But this is not a cry for pitty or for sympathy

I guess I take after my mother    x2