Starkid – The Trail To Oregon - When The Worlds At Stake (Guitar)

   E/B            B
At first I didn't want it

    E/B             B
Her daddy, well, we didn't fit

    E/B
But I couldn't swing it

  B                    F#sus4 F#
I was scared to do it alone

B
Seventeen and pregnant

                   D#m
Not what I had in mind

    G#m
Her daddy was a farmer

     E              F#
But not the wealthy kind

  E/B
I wanted to be a dancer

            D#m
But not the kind I did for pay

G#m      F#      C#
Who was this new person

         B/G#          F#
That was getting in my way?

C#m
I could've walked out

E/B
Left her for dead

B                E/G#
Cut her out with my own hands

E/B
But something in me

B                            F#sus4 F#
Was kicking and screaming to live

         E/B
When the world's at stake

          B
There are lives to save

         E/B
And even though I shake

            D#m   B/G#
My hands at God I pray

        E/B
Let her have a better life

       D#m
Than I can provide

           C#sus4
Lord have mercy on my soul

     D#m                 E/B B F#
As I try to do her right

     B
It took a long, long time

         D#m
To understand God's plan for me

    G#m
He threw me down the river

         E            F#
Beat my flush in Kankakee

        G#m
By the time my water broke

      D#m
I was deep in my own debt

    G#m     F#      C#
But when I saw her face

         E         F#sus4 F#
It was easy to forget

C#m
I knew I had to

E/B
Get her away

B                     G#m
Take her to where my debt was paid

E
A new beginning

     B                 F#sus4
A place I'd never been

         E/B
When the world's at stake

            B
All your dreams they change

          E/B
And every step you take

        D#m      B/G#
Is for another's sake

         E/B
And even if she grows to hate me

        D#m
I won't change my course of heart

          C#7
Lord have mercy on my soul

       B
If we ever grow apart

E
You think that I resent her very being?

                                       B         E
That maybe I regret her ever needing a mother

                                   B
I may be rash and overprotecting, not bitter

      G#m   F#       C#
I suppose I could be softer…

C#m
I can do better

E
Hold you closer

        B
I'm learning that

          G#m
As I grow older

E                 F#      G#
I'm the one to forgive

           F#
When the world's at stake

               C#
You give your life away

         F#
And it feels so great

             C#/E#   A#m7
To watch the one you saved

         F#         F#6 F#
Be the most adoring person

     C#/E#
Your mom has ever known

            D#m7
Lord have mercy on my soul

           C#7                   F#
And let my dreams be all her own

        F#      C# G#            C#
When my world's at stake...