Lifes Greatest Fool Chords
by Gene Clark
Lifes Greatest Fool by Gene Clark is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, C, Am and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
G D C Am
Some walk out winners of those who've lost
G D C
Can it be said at any price this is the cost
G D C Am
Hard is perception easier is blame
G D C D G
Is this the only life for everyone is it the same
G D C Am
Children laugh and run away
G D C
While others look into the darkness of the day
G D C Am
Some streets are easy while some are cruel
G D C D G
Could these be reasons why man is life's greatest fool
D A
Do you believe when you're all alone
C G
You held the key to your destiny gone
D A
Do you believe deep in your soul
C G A D
That too much lonliness makes you grow old
SOLO
G D C Am
Words can be empty though filled with sound
G D C
Stoned numb and drifting hard to be profound
G D C Am
Formed out of pleasure chiselled by pain
G D C D G
Never the highest and not the last ones to gain
D A
Do you believe when you're all alone
C G
You held the key to your destiny gone
D A
Do you believe deep in your soul
C G A D
That too much lonliness makes you grow old
Copyright @ 1974 Irving Music Inc.(BMI)
From the "No Other" LP Asylum Records 1974