Misc Musicals – The Outsiders - Great Expectations (Guitar)

G                                        Am7
‘scuse Me, Mr. Dickens, I’ve Got Something On My Mind.

      A#                    F                 C
I’ve Tried But I Can’t Seem To Let It Go.

G                                             Am7
Lately I’ve Been Thinking About That Little Orphan boy

        A#                    F                C
Whose Parents Died And Left Him All Alone.

          G
Then An Outlaw Came One Fateful Day,

       B7
While Standing At His Parent’s Grave,

     C                                  A7
And Offered Him Another Way To Climb.

             G         B7    Em
And Now, I Wonder,

          C                 Cm
Is That Orphan Story Mine?

            G
All These Great Expectations

             A#                        F
Meet These Grave Revelations,

                       C
Am I The One In Con-trol?

       Em
Is It All Predetermined?

      Asus4      A            C
Am I Playing A Role

                         D
Part Of A Story Fore-told?

Em
Darrel Was On His Way Up In The World,

G
Everyone Knew He’d Go Far.

C
Life Came Along And Had Different Plans.

     D
How Quickly A Dream Falls Apart.

Em
Johnny Has No Kind Of Chance In This World,

G
Not From Where He’s Had To Start.

C
Who Knows How Far In This Life He Could Go

   D
If He Played A Different Part.

Em
I Look Around At All Of My Friends

     G
And Still I Feel Alone.

          C
I Would Follow Them To Battle

            D
But Their Story’s Not My Own.

      Em
They Say There’s Strength In Numbers

            G
But They Never Think It Out.

   C
A-bout A Path That Leads You Out

     D
Be-yond These City Walls!

           Em              G
I’ve Got Great Ex-pec-tations.

C               D
Great Ex-pec-tations.

Em                G
Great Ex-pec-tations!

C               D
Great Ex-pec-tations…

C                                           D
Torn Between What Is And What Could Be.

      C
It’s Hard To Write The Story,

           F
When The Story’s Writing Me.

            G
When This Great Expectation

             A#                        F
Meets This Grave Revelation,

                               C
Maybe This Cover’s Not Yours.

           Em
When Your Book’s Full Of Creases,

         Asus4           A                C
And You See   That The Grease Is

             D
But You’ve Read That One Before.

        Em
So You Fight Just To Show Them

              Asus4         A         C
That You’re Not All The Same.

                                     D
That Under The Cover, There’s More.