Ballad Of A Lonely Man Chords

Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

IG'm young Cand I'm strGong

GI've got this GDod forsaken worCld by the baGlls

IG've got a oDne way ticCket to freeGdom

GAin't no one now, gDonna take it from mGe

Verse 2

I was a soldier, age twenty-one

In a war, not sure what I was fighting for

And yet I turned from a boy to a man there

Goodbye to innocence and a sweet sixteen

Chorus

(Walk to Em from G)

EmMy whole liCfe I couGld not arraDnge

EmMy wicked wCays I coGuld never cDhange

GDon't try, don't tEmry now tDo understaGnd

FGor this is the ballad oDf a lonely mGan

Verse 3

Close to me is a photograph

Of a family left far, far behind

Once I had A love, it slipped away from

I searched a lifetime, but could not find

Chorus

Bridge

Walkdown to

Em-C-G-D-Em-C-G-D (You're basically playing the chorus without singing

Final Verse

In a hospital bed, I'm violently ill,

Just one more drink nurse I swear to god.

I've got my St. Anthony and my whiskey,

Yes I'm a veteran of three foreign wars.

I love this song..and this is how I play it,