Confessions Of A Broken Man chords by Porter Wagoner

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Verse 1

I'm just askin' you to listen

not to understand

These confessions of a broken man

Verse 2
C 
 (C major) 
G 
I don't know where my story starts  (G major) 
C 
or I'd go back to them  (C major) 
G 
All I know it's  (G major) a  sad sad tale
so for it has no end
D 
I know I drank  (D major) too much though
I didn't take thirst
C 
Oh I'd have a beer  (C major) or two and it just
G 
C 
seemed to  (G major) go from bad to worse  (C major) 

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Verse 3

Then one day I noticed my

money was goin' out

Faster than it was comin' in

And I got scared and I started gamblin'

And I'm the kind that just

never seems to win

Verse 4
G 
 (G major) I  had a woman guess
C 
 (C major) every man does
G 
And every man  (G major) thinks his
is the best mine was
D 
Stuck by me through thick and thin  (D major) 
C 
Till it just got too thin I guess  (C major) 

Verse 5
G 
She walked in one day and  (G major) said
C 
she had believed me  (C major) 
G 
I could've sworn I saw  (G major) big tear in her eye
D 
I heard the other day that  (D major) she
G 
got married again  (G major) 

Verse 6
I hope he treats her better than I
C 
 (C major) 
G 
Well if you get me idea  (G major) that I'm
some kind of a bum
C 
G 
 (C major) You're catchin' on pretty fast  (G major) 
And if you wonder if I've
turned into a wino
D 
For these are  (D major) all my

Verse 7
fingerprints on this glass
C 
 (C major) I've been sittin' here in this bar since
G 
they  (G major) opened up this mornin'
C 
And it's  (C major) almost time
G 
to close tonight  (G major) 
I guess it's about time to go
D 
find me a gutter  (D major) 
G 
Tuck myself in  (G major) tonight

Verse 8
G 
 (G major) Where does a man go when
C 
he's already  (C major) on the bottom
G 
D 
G 
C 
 (G major) It's really not much  (D major) choice  (G major) he's got  (C major) 
G 
He either picks himself  (G major) up
and tries again
D 
Or just lays back down to rot  (D major) 

Verse 9
G 
No life starts out  (G major) to be like mine
Pain is never planned
D 
And yet here I sit with  (D major) nothing in the world
But these confessions
G 
of a broken man  (G major) 