Better Man

Chords used:  

[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]F[/ch]
e|---0-----0-----2-----0-----3-----1-----|
B|---1-----0-----3-----1-----3-----1-----|
G|---0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----2-----|
D|---2-----2-----0-----2-----0-----3-----|
A|---3-----2-----x-----0-----2-----3-----|
E|---x-----0-----x-----x-----3-----1-----|[/tab]

Standard Tuning, Capo 2nd Fret

Intro & Verse picking:

[tab]e|-------------0-----3------------------------3---------------0-----3-------------------------0-----|
B|-------1-------1-----1----------0-----3-------3-------1-------1-----1----------3----------3---3---|
G|-----0---0--------------------0---0-----0-----------0---0--------------------0---0------2-------2-|
D|---2-------2-----2----------2-------2-----2-------2-------2-----2----------2-------2--0-----------|
A|-3------------------------2---------------------3------------------------2------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|[/tab]

Intro: [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Em[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]Em7[/ch] - [ch]D[/ch]

Verse 1:

[tab][ch]C[/ch]
It was 1985[/tab]
[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]
When your son and I drove by[/tab]
[tab]                     [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]
And saw you standing there[/tab]
[tab][ch]C[/ch]
Outside the liquor store[/tab]
[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]
With a bottle in your hand[/tab]
[tab]                    [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]
Living the life you chose[/tab]

Pre-Chorus:

[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]
I always wondered why[/tab]
[tab]                 [ch]Am[/ch]
We just drove on by[/tab]
[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]
I never saw you again[/tab]

Chorus:

[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]
You never tried to be a better man[/tab]
[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]
You chose to run instead[/tab]
[tab][ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]
All of the guilt you carried[/tab]
[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]
Was written on your face[/tab]
[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]
I never knew the day you died[/tab]
[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]
Would take it all away[/tab]

Verse 2:

[tab][ch]C[/ch]
Soon his mother died[/tab]
[tab][ch]Em[/ch]
And all the locked up pain inside[/tab]
[tab][ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]
Began to rear its head[/tab]
[tab][ch]C[/ch]
And all the memories[/tab]
[tab][ch]Em[/ch]
Like some old bad disease[/tab]
[tab][ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]
Was finally put to bed[/tab]

Pre-Chorus:

[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]
I always wondered why[/tab]
[tab]                 [ch]Am[/ch]
We just drove on by[/tab]
[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]
But now I understand[/tab]

(Chorus)

Bridge: [ch]F[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]F[/ch] - [ch]C[/ch] - [ch]D[/ch]

(chorus)

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
[tab]| [ch]H[/ch]  hammer-on
| p  pull-off[/tab]
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note