The Idiot

The Idiot easy guitar chords by Stan Rogers

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Capo

  • D

  • Bm

    2

  • G

  • Em

  • A

  • D

  • Bm

    2

  • G

  • Em

  • A

    • Verse 1
    D
    Bm
    D

    I often take these night shift walks
    G
    Bm

    When the foreman's not around
    G
    D

    I turn my back on the cooling stacks
    G
    D
    Em
    A

    And make for open ground
    Bm
    G
    A

    Far out beyond the tank-farm fence
    D

    fence
    G
    Bm

    Where the gas flare makes no sound
    G

    I forget the stink and I always think
    D
    A
    D

    Back to that Eastern town
    Interlude 1
    D
    A
    Bm
    D
    G
    Bm
    G
    D
    G
    D

    Em
    A
    Bm
    G
    A
    D
    G
    Bm
    G
    D
    G

    D
    A
    D

    Verse 2
    G

    [Chorus] So I
    A
    D

    bid farewell to the Eastern town
    Bm
    D

    I never more will see
    G
    A
    D

    But work I must so I eat this dust
    Bm
    Em
    A

    And breathe refinery
    Bm
    G

    Oh I miss the green and the
    A
    D

    woods and streams
    G
    Bm

    And I don't like cowboy clothes
    G
    D
    G

    But I like being free and that makes me
    D
    A

    An idiot, I suppose.
    D
    I remember back six years ago This western life
    Verse 3
    D

    A
    Bm
    D
    G

    I chose
    Bm
    G

    And every

    day the news would say
    D
    G
    D
    Em

    Some factory's going to
    A
    Bm
    G
    A
    D
    G

    close

    Well, I could have stayed to
    Bm

    take the dole

    But I'm not one of those.
    G

    I take nothing free,

    and that makes me,
    D
    G

    An idiot, I suppose.
    D
    A
    D
    Verse 4

    A
    Bm

    So come all you fine young fellows
    D
    G
    Bm

    Who've been beaten to the ground
    G
    D
    G

    This western life's no paradise,
    D
    Em
    A

    But it's better than lying down.
    Bm
    G

    Oh the streets aren't clean,
    A
    D

    and there's nothing green,
    G
    Bm

    And the hills are dirty brown,
    G
    D

    But the government dole will rot your soul
    G
    D
    A
    D

    Back there in your home town.
    G
    A
    So bid farewell to the
    Verse 5
    D

    Eastern town
    Bm
    A
    D

    You never more will see.
    G

    There's self-respect and
    D

    and a steady check
    Bm
    Em
    A

    In this refinery.
    Bm
    G

    You will miss the green
    A

    and the woods and streams
    D
    G
    Bm

    And the dust will fill your nose.
    G
    D
    G

    But you'll be free, and just like me,
    D
    A
    D
    Bm
    G

    An idiot, I suppose.
    Outro 1
    A
    D
    G
    Bm
    G
    D
    G
    D
    A
    D

    A
    D
    A
    Bm
    D
    G
    Bm

    G
    D
    G
    D
    Em
    A

    Bm
    G
    A
    D
    G

    Bm
    G
    D
    G

    D
    A
    D
    G
    A
    D

    Bm
    A
    D
    G
    A
    D

    Bm
    Em
    A
    Bm
    G
    A
    D

    G
    Bm
    G
    D
    G

    D
    A
    D
    G
    D
    G

    D
    A
    D

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