The Grand Optimist Chords & Tabs
The Grand Optimist Chords
I had just noticed that the other tabs were just a wee bit off.
So I made it correct as possible. This is derived from watching him play the song in
several versions, but predominantly this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0XCA9_6lIA&feature=related
Standard tuning
Capo 2
For the C and the Am, he throws his pinky onto the fourth fret of the G string.
Cmaj7 - x32410
AmAdd9 - x02410
And he specifically does the C to Am walk down, so he uses the G/B
G/B - X20030
Intro: C G/B Am C G/B Am
Verse:
C G/B Am
I fear I'm dying of complications
C G/B Am
Complications due to things that I've left undone
C G/B
That all my debts will be left unpaid
Am
Feel like a cripple without a cane
C G/B
I'm like a jack of all trades
Am
Who's a master of none
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/city_and_colour/the_grand_optimist_crd_ver_2.html ]
Intro twice, on the second time he throws in
a little riff. Dallas plays it that way.
e|----0---0-0----0------------0---0-0----0---0-----|
B|----0h1-1-1----3------------1---1-1----1---1-----|
G|----4---4-4----0-----5---7--4---4-4----4---4-----|
D|----2---2-2----0--5/7-7/9---2---2-2----2---2-----|
A|--3-3---3-3----2------------0---0-0--0-0---0-2-3-|
E|-------------3-----------------------------------|
Verse 2:
C G/B
Then there's my father
Am
He's always looking on the bright side
C G/B Am
Saying things like "son life just ain't that hard"
C G/B
He is the grand optimist
Am
I am the world's poor pessimist
C G/B
You give him buttons sometimes
Am
And he will escape unscarred
Pre-Chorus/Chorus:
G Am
I guess I take after my mother x2
I used to be quite resilient
Gain no strength from counting the beads on a rosary
Now the wound has begun to turn
Another lesson that has gone unlearned
But this is not a cry for pitty or for sympathy
I guess I take after my mother