Slim Dusty – The Biggest Disappointment (Guitar)

     G               C             D
They had my future wrapped up in a parcel

     C           D                G
and no one even thought of asking me.

                    C                 D
The day I turned fifteen I caught the mail train

   C                    D              G
To find what else might be in life for me.

  Em                                     B7
I rode on trucks and trains and lived on nothing;

Em                                A7
Served me right for wanting to be free

         G               C             D
Ah well, that's the way society looked at it,

        C             D              G
But it didn't seem to be that way to me.

        G            C                G
And the biggest disappointment in the family was me;

                 C               D               D7
the only twisted branch upon our good old family tree

       G               B7            Em           A7
I just couldn't be the person they expected me to be

        G            C                D         G
And the biggest disappointment in the world was me

  G               C                     D
A lot more dinner times than there were dinners

  C                  D              G
I learned a lot that hurt me at the time

                        C               D
Then this quiet country boy came home a different man

       C         D              G
with a memory of distance on my mind

      Em                                  B7
But I always spoke too loud and drank too often,

Em                           A7
Maybe drank too many glasses down

       G                    C            D
And perhaps my clothes were older than I realised

    C              D                  G
A relief to all concerned when I left town

        G            C                G
And the biggest disappointment in the family was me;

                 C               D               D7
the only twisted branch upon our good old family tree

       G               B7            Em           A7
I just couldn't be the person they expected me to be

        G            C                D         G
And the biggest disappointment in the world was me

        G            C                G
And the biggest disappointment in the family was me;

                 C               D               D7
the only twisted branch upon our good old family tree

       G               B7            Em           A7
I just couldn't be the person they expected me to be

        G            C                D         G
And the biggest disappointment in the world was me