The Sporting Life chords by
The Decemberists

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Key: G major

Verse 1
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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I fell on the playing field
C C 
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The work of an errant heel
The din of the crowd and
Am Am 
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the loud commotion
D D 
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Went deafening silence and
G G 
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stopped emotion
D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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The season was almost done
C C 
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We managed it 12 to 1
So far I had known no humiliation
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C C 
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D D 
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In front of my friends
and close relations
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Verse 2
G G 
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D D 
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C C 
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There's my father looking on
G G 
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And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
Em Em 
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With the captain of the other team
C C 
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And all of this is clear to me
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C C 
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They condescend and fix on me a frown
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D D 
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G G 
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How they love the sporting life

Verse 3
G G 
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Em Em 
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And father had had such hopes
For a son who would take
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the ropes
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And fulfill all his old athletic aspirations
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D D 
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But apparently now there's
some complications
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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But while I am lying here
C C 
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Trying to fight the tears
I'll prove to the crowd that I
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come out stronger
C C 
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D D 
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Though I think I might lie here
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a little longer

Verse 4
C C 
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G G 
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There's my coach he's looking down
C C 
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The disappointment in his
G G 
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knitted brow
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I should've known
He thinks again
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I never should have put him in
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C C 
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He turns and loads the lemonade away
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D D 
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And breathes in deep
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The sporting life
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Em Em 
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The sporting life
C C 
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The sporting life
G G 
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How he loves

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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G G 
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C C 
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There's my father looking on
G G 
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And there's my girlfriend arm in arm
D D 
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Em Em 
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With the captain of the other team
C C 
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And all of this is clear to me
D D 
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C C 
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They condescend and fix on me a frown
Am Am 
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D D 
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G G 
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How they love the sporting life

Outro 1
G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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C C 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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Em Em 
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C C 
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G G 
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G G 
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