The Decemberists – Sporting Life (Guitar)

Gmaj7
I fell on the playing field

Em
the work of an errant heel

Cadd9
the din of the crowd and the loud commotion

Am                     Dsus2
went deafening silence and stopped emotion

Gmaj7
the season was almost done

Em
we managed it 12 to 1

Cadd9
so far I had known no humiliation

Am                      Dsus2
in front of my friends and close relations

Cmaj7                     Gmaj7
There's my father looking on

Cmaj7                            Gmaj7
and there's my girlfriend arm in arm

Em
with the captain of the other team

Cadd9
and all of this is clear to me

Dsus2                           Cadd9
they condescend and fix on me a frown

Am       Dsus2
how they love 

Gmaj7
the sporting life

Gmaj7
And father had had such hopes

Em
for a son who would take the ropes

Cadd9
and fulfill all his old athletic aspirations

Am             Dsus2
but apparently now there's some complications

Gmaj7
but while I am lying here

Em
trying to fight the tears

Cadd9
I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger

Am                     Dsus2
though I think I might lie here a little longer

Cmaj7                         Gmaj7
There's my coach he's looking down

Cmaj7                             Gmaj7
the disappointment in his knitted brow

Em
I should've known he thinks again

Cadd9
I never should have put him in

Dsus2                  Cadd9
he turns and loads the lemonade away

Am              Dsus2
and breathes in deep

Gmaj7
the sporting life

Em
the sporting life

Cadd9
the sporting life

Gmaj7
how he loves...

Cmaj7                     Gmaj7
There's my father looking on

Cmaj7                            Gmaj7
and there's my girlfriend arm in arm

Em
with the captain of the other team

Cadd9
and all of this is clear to me

Dsus2                           Cadd9
they condescend and fix on me a frown

Am       Dsus2
how they love 

Gmaj7
the sporting life

Em
the sporting life

Cadd9
the sporting life

Gmaj7
how they love...