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. 
 
 
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                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 
 
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