The Man That Ive Been Chords
by Cory Morrow
The Man That Ive Been by Cory Morrow is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B7 and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: E
Verse 1: E A E A
I spent my last two birthdays in the Travis County Jail
E A E B7
Tomorrow I go up for life but I should go straight to hell
B7 A E
Hell's got no more room for me and it's got no more time
A B7 E
I should be confessin' all my crimes
E A E A
Four years ago my debt was piled high upon my mind
E A E B7
And I devised a plan to rob a bank just to survive
B7
Oh, but when the gunsmoke cleared
A E
I saw two bodies on the ground
A B7 E
Thirteen hours later I was found
Chorus: B A E
Don't you feel any sorrow for the man that I've been
B
'Cause in the waking of tomorrow
A E
They will find me full of sin
A E B E
I got news for you, I ain't as bad as they say
A E
I got news for you it looks like,
B A E
That just don't matter today
Instru: E A E B7 E
Verse 2: E A E A
Well the verdict came and right away, "Guilty Indeed"
E A B7
A 99 to life is what I heard that jury
Well, they thought they might impress upon me
A E
Crime it does not pay
A B7 E
I ain't one for listenin' today
E A E A
As the years go by and by upon a shadowed ground I walk
E A E B7
The people and the places of my past have now been lost
A E
The man that I've been is not the man I'd hoped to be
A B7 E
Now it's too late to find the good in me
Chorus: (2X)
Ending: E B A E
Ah, looks like it just don't matter today
Outro: E A E