James Taylor – Mean Old Man (Guitar)

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[Intro] G11
      Cmaj7  G11
On my own

    Cmaj7        G11
How could I have known?

Cmaj7   Bm9 E7  Amaj9
Imagine my surprise

       Ebmaj7   Bb11
Just a fool

       Ebmaj7       Bb11
From a tree full of fools

Ebmaj7      Dm11  G13 Cmaj7
Who can't believe his eyes

           Bm11    E7 E13
Imagine my surprise
[Verse]
               G7b5     F#7b9
'Cause I was a mean old man

         Bm7    E7
I was an ornery cuss

        C#m7   A7#5
I was a dismal Dan

          Dmaj7 C#m7 Bm7
I made an aw -  ful fuss

              G#m7b5   C#7
Ever since my life   began

            F#m7 Dmaj7
Man, it was ever thus

        Gmaj7 B7#5         Dmaj7/E G#7#5
I was a nasty tyke who was hard to like
[Verse]
         G7b5    F#7b9
I had to misbe - have

             Bm7    E7
I did things in  reverse

           C#m7    A7#5
Refused to wash or shave

             Dmaj7 C#m7 Bm7
I was horrid to    my   nurse

           G#m7b5   C#7
I got back what I gave

           F#m7    Dmaj7
Which only made me worse

         Gmaj7   B7#5
I had to have my way

          Dmaj7/E   G#7#5    Cmaj9 G11
Which was bleak and gray, oh dear

Cmaj7     G11
Living in here

Cmaj7        Bm9  E7 Amaj9 A6
One hundred years of rain

       Ebmaj9   Bb11
Such a drag

     Ebmaj9    Bb11
This riches to rags

Ebmaj7    Dm11  G13 Cmaj7
And just myself to blame

           Bm11    E7 E13
A dirty low-down shame
[Instrumental] G7b5 F#7b9 Bm7 E7 C#m7 A7#5 Dmaj7 C#m7 Bm7 G#m7b5 C#7 F#m7 Dmaj7 Gmaj7 B7#5 Dmaj7/E G#7#5 (x2)
      Cmaj9 G11
Silly me

      Cmaj9 G11
Silly old me

Cmaj7        Bm9  E7 Amaj9 A6
Somewhere outside my mind

       Ebmaj9   Bb11
Clever you

Ebmaj9     Bb11
Walking me through

Ebmaj7     Dm11  G13 Cmaj7
Willing to lead the blind

           Bm11    E7 E13
All in the nick of time
[Verse]
           G7b5   F#7b9
Who gets a second chance?

            Bm7       E7
Who gets to have some fun?

            C#m7     A7#5
Who gets to learn to dance

           Dmaj7 C#m7 Bm7
Before his race  is   run?

            G#m7b5   C#7
Who gets to shed his skin?

             F#m7 Dmaj7
Who comes up born again?

          Gmaj7    B7#5
Who was a mean old man

         Dmaj7/E    G#7#5  G7b5  F#7b9 F7#5  E7
'Til you turned him into a gol - den   retriever

      Amaj9
Puppy dog.    Who's a good boy?