The Biggest Disappointment Chords

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The Biggest Disappointment by Slim Dusty is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, D, Em, B7, A7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C       G               C             D 
  They had my future wrapped up in a parcel 
     C           D                 G 
and no one even thought of asking me. 
                      C                D   
The day I turned fifteen I caght the mailtrain 
     C                   D              G 
To find what else might be in life for me. 
   Em                                                                    B7 
I rode on trucks and trains and lived on nothing; 
 Em                                 A7 
Served me right for wanting to be free-  
          G               C            D 
Ah well that's the way society looked at it,  
        C               D             G 
But it didn't seem to be that way to me. 
 
 
Chorus 
                           G             D              G        
And the biggest disappointment in the family was me; 
                    C              D7 
the only twisted branch upon our good old fam'y tree 
          G              B7             Em               
I just couldn't be the person they ecpected me to be 
              G              C              D       G  
A7 And the biggest disappiontment in the world was me 
 
 
C       G               C             D 
A lot more dinner times than there dinners 
     C           D                 G 
I learned a lot that hurt me at the time 
                      C                D   
Then this quiet country boy came home a different man  
     C                   D              G 
with a memory of distance on my mind 
   Em                                                                    B7 
But i always spoke to loud and drank to often,  
 Em                                 A7 
Maybe drank to many glasses down 
          G               C            D 
And perhaps my clothes were older that I realized 
     C               D             G 
A relief to all concerned when I left town 
 
Chorus X 2 
 
 
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