The Allman Brothers Band – Old Before My Time (Guitar)

   Gadd9                      F6#11                       Esus4                       C
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Em                               D             C
  There is a long hard road that follows far behind me

G                           Am   C
  It's so cold I'm about to die

Em
Chasing a dream around the world

    D              C
Has got me feeling down

G           F                C
  Though it used to make me high

Am             D     Am                    Em
  Looking for answers, searching for the truth

C        G/B       Am
  In an o-cean of lies

D                  G         Am                   Em
  Trying to find a reason to make the whole thing rhyme

C               D               G
  can make you old before your time

Em
  When I was younger

  D                   C
I thought I ruled the world

G                       Am    C
  It was an oyster at my feet

Em
  Dancing to my own drum

D               C
Fishing out the pearl

G                    Dm               C
  Guess I would have been much more discreet

Am               D
  I've lived a lifetime,

Am              Em
  acting out a part

C             G/B         Am
  It's been a long uphill climb

D              G                  Am              Em
  Now all the things that used to mean so much to me

C               D             G
  Have made me old before my time

C                     G
  Wondering aimlessly, wondering aloud

Em         C            D
  Could it ever be much different now

  C
Remind me of the past

  G
I slip into a dream

Em                C               D    Dsus4 D
Funny, things ain't never what they seem

Em
  Living like children,

      D                 C
never doing what we are told

G                                Am   C
  Would not hesitate to take a chance

Em                            D                C
  That road behind me now was paved with fools gold

G             Dm                    C
  It's almost time for the victory dance

Am                 D
  No more feeling guilty

    Am             Em
for things I never did

C         G/B            Am
  Feeling nothing for my crime

D               G
  Living like a gypsy,

Am              Em
dreaming like a kid

C             D             Gadd9
  Has made me old before my time

Em*                             D*             C*
  There is a long hard road, it winds so far behind me