A Man of Great Promise chords by
The Style Council

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
Em Em 
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I bought the paper
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D D 
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G G 
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yesterday and I saw the obituary
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Em Em 
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Am Am 
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And I read of how you died in pain -
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G G 
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Well I just couldn't understand it
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Am Am 
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If  I could of changed that,
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G G 
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then Lord knows I'd do it now
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Am Am 
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But there is  no going back -
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G G 
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F F 
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Gsus4 Gsus4 
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And what's done is done forever
G G 
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Verse 2

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But you were always chained and

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F#dim

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shackled by the dirt -

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Of every small town institution and every big

Interlude 1

town flirt

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And I think

Verse 3
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of what you might have been,
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a man of such great promise
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Oh but, you seem to forget the dream -
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And the more you saw you hated
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Am Am 
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But let's not talk of  blame,
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D D 
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G G 
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for what     is only natural
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Like a moth going to a flame -
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You had a dangerous passion

Verse 4

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Gsus4

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But you were always chained

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C#dim

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F#dim

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and shackled by the dirt -

Of every small town institution

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and every big town flirt

Verse 5
Em Em 
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All the things that you might have
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been - but who am I to say?
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Still I   wonder -
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D D 
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If it's in the cold earth
G G 
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Em Em 
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you prefer to lay -
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D D 
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If it's in the cold earth - you prefer