The Grand Optimist

I had just noticed that the other tabs were just a wee bit off.

So I made it correct as possible. This is derived from watching him play the song in

several versions, but predominantly this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XCA9_6lIA&feature=related

Standard tuning

Capo 2

For the C and the Am, he throws his pinky onto the fourth fret of the G string.

Cmaj7 - x32410

AmAdd9 - x02410

And he specifically does the C to Am walk down, so he uses the G/B

Verse:

I fear I'm dying of complications

Complications due to things that I've left undone

That all my debts will be left unpaid

Feel like a cripple without a cane

I'm like a jack of all trades

Who's a master of none

Intro twice, on the second time he throws in

a little riff. Dallas plays it that way.

Verse 2:

Then there's my father

He's always looking on the bright side

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

He is the grand optimist

I am the world's poor pessimist

You give him buttons sometimes

And he will escape unscarred

Pre-Chorus/Chorus:

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