Tuning: Standard
C D
From my humble beginning
G C
To our bitter end
D
You were the one who was pretending
G C
That I was your orphan
G C D G
In a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn I found a new place to dwell
G C D G
I tore up my ticket to Tennessee and checked out of the Hollywood hotel
Bm Em
You can call me a turncoat
C D
Challenge my dignity
G D
But you were wrong about me
G D
You were wrong, all along, about me
C D
Take of your plastic halo
G C
But don't shun the monks inside your head
D
Give it to the gullible grooms
G C
Who drink their snake oil beside your bed
G C D G
In your conjured up courtroom my integrity is on trial
G C D G
The prosecution is gathering evidence from denial
Bm Em
You can preach to the choir
C D
Say that I'm guilty
G D
But you were wrong about me
G D
You were wrong, all along, about me
C
Go tell all your friends
G
Tell the boys back home about it
C
Tell your nurses and nuns about it
G
Tell all your cats about it
C G C G
You were wrong you were wrong...
C D
Stubborn cowboys click their bootheels
G C
They're all settling their debts
D
I'm not making any more deals
G C
I ain't placing no more bets
G C D G
Downtown on wall street where the millionaires smoke their cigars
G C D G
I traded all my savings for a new suit and an electric guitar
Bm Em
You could say that I sold out
C D
But nobody works for free
G D
But you were wrong about me
G D
You were wrong, all along, about me
