City and Colour – The Grand Optimist (Guitar)

Capo 2 • Video Lesson
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This is derived from watching him play the song in several versions, but predominantly this one. Here's a video lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebTcUzZRlMI 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 G/B - x20030 [Intro] C G/B Am x2 [Verse 1]
C          G/B              Am
I fear I'm dying from complications

      C              G/B                    Am
Complications due to things that I've left undone

            C                  G/B
That all my debts will be left unpaid

            Am
Feel like a cripple without a cane

           C               G/B
I'm like a jack of all trades

                  Am
Who's a master of none
[Instrumental] C G/B Am 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]
C               G/B
Then there's my father

Am
He's always looking on the bright side

       C            G/B                        Am
Saying things like "son, life just ain't that hard"

          C            G/B
He is the grand optimist

         Am
I am the world's poor pessimist

             C                G/B
You give him burdens sometimes

                   Am
And he will escape unscarred
[Chorus]
G                           Am
    I guess I take after my mother

G                           Am
    I guess I take after my mother
[Instrumental] C G/B Am x2 [Verse 3]
C               G/B        Am
  But I used to be quite resilient

        C                          G/B            Am
Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary

        C                  G/B
Now the wound has begun to turn

        Am
Another lesson that has gone unlearned

            C             G/B              Am
But this is not a cry for pity or for sympathy
[Chorus]
G                           Am
    I guess I take after my mother

G                           Am
    I guess I take after my mother

G                           Am
    I guess I take after my mother

G                           Am
    I guess I take after my mother
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