Famous Man chords by John Wesley Harding

SimplifiedD · G · C · Am · Em

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Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Mother,
C 
G 
Am 
last night I shot a famous man
D 
His music, his life,
G 
D 
I was his greatest fan
G 
Mother, I'm sorry for all the things
C 
G 
Em 
G 
Am 
that I did
D 
I've been hiding it all of my life,
Em 
should've kept it still hid
C 
D 
Should've kept it still hid
G 

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Verse 2
Mother, last night I shot
C 
G 
Am 
a famous man
D 
Ain't it funny the things a man does
G 
D 
'cause he knows that he can
G 
When I raise my voice,
C 
G 
Am 
it's a small feeble sound in the wind
D 
To make yourself heard in this big bad world,
Em 
C 
you must know where to begin
D 
You must know where to begin

Verse 3
G 
Mother, last night I shot a
C 
G 
Am 
famous man
D 
But today I can't say it all went
G 
D 
according to plan
G 
He just looked at me,
C 
Em 
Am 
he stared me straight in the eyes
D 
Now I know how he felt
Em 
every day til he died
C 
Em 
D 
Every day til he died
Em 

Verse 4
G 
Mother, well now people
C 
Em 
Am 
listen to me
D 
I'm the King of America,
G 
D 
some say that I'm the King of Comedy
G 
Mother, now that I know what it
C 
G 
Am 
means to be heard
D 
I wish I  put down my gun,
like he put down his guitar
Em 
And I wish that I'd swallowed my words
C 
D 
Wished I'd swallowed my words
G 