The Grand Optimist – City and Colour
Nghệ sĩ: City and Colour
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
This is derived from watching him play the song in
several versions, but predominantly this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XCA9_6lIA
Here's a video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebTcUzZRlMI
Standard tuning
Capo 2
For the C and the Am, he throws his pinky onto the fourth fret of the G string.
- x32410
- x02410
And he specifically does the C to Am walk down, so he uses the G/B
- x20030
Intro
x2
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I fear I'm dying from complications
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
Complications due to things that I've left undone
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch
That all my debts will be left unpaid
ch]Am[/ch
Feel like a cripple without a cane
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch
I'm like a jack of all trades
ch]Am[/ch
Who's a master of none
Instrumental
x2
Intro twice, on the second time he throws in
a little riff. Dallas plays it that way.
e|----0---0-0----0---------------0---0-0----0---0-----|
B|----0h1-1-1----3---------------1---1-1----1---1-----|
G|----4---4-4----0------5-----7--2---2-2----2---2-----|
D|----2---2-2----0--5/7---7/9----2---2-2----2---2-----|
A|--3-3---3-3----2---------------0---0-0--0-0---0-2-3-|
E|-------------3--------------------------------------|
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch
Then there's my father
ch]Am[/ch
He's always looking on the bright side
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
Saying things like "son, life just ain't that hard"
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch
He is the grand optimist
ch]Am[/ch
I am the world's poor pessimist
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch
You give him burdens sometimes
ch]Am[/ch
And he will escape unscarred
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I guess I take after my mother
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I guess I take after my mother
Instrumental
x2
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
But I used to be quite resilient
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch
Now the wound has begun to turn
ch]Am[/ch
Another lesson that has gone unlearned
ch]C[/ch] [ch]G/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I guess I take after my mother
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I guess I take after my mother
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I guess I take after my mother
ch]G[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch
I guess I take after my mother
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