The Outsiders - Great Expectations keyboard

The Outsiders - Great Expectations

• Verse 1

Verse 1
G                                        Am7
‘scuse Me, Mr. Dickens, I’ve Got Something On My Mind.
      A#                    F                 C
I’ve Tried But I Can’t Seem To Let It Go.
G                                             Am7
Lately I’ve Been Thinking About That Little Orphan boy
        A#                    F                C
Whose Parents Died And Left Him All Alone.
          G
Then An Outlaw Came One Fateful Day,
       B7
While Standing At His Parent’s Grave,
     C                                  A7
And Offered Him Another Way To Climb.
             G         B7    Em
And Now, I Wonder,
          C                 Cm
Is That Orphan Story Mine?

Chorus
            G
All These Great Expectations
             A#                        F
Meet These Grave Revelations,
                       C
Am I The One In Con-trol?
       Em
Is It All Predetermined?
      Asus4      A            C
Am I Playing A Role
                         D
Part Of A Story Fore-told?

Verse 2
Em
Darrel Was On His Way Up In The World,
G
Everyone Knew He’d Go Far.
C
Life Came Along And Had Different Plans.
     D
How Quickly A Dream Falls Apart.
Em
Johnny Has No Kind Of Chance In This World,
G
Not From Where He’s Had To Start.
C
Who Knows How Far In This Life He Could Go
   D
If He Played A Different Part.

Bridge
Em
I Look Around At All Of My Friends
     G
And Still I Feel Alone.
          C
I Would Follow Them To Battle
            D
But Their Story’s Not My Own.
      Em
They Say There’s Strength In Numbers
            G
But They Never Think It Out.
   C
A-bout A Path That Leads You Out
     D
Be-yond These City Walls!

Chorus
           Em              G
I’ve Got Great Ex-pec-tations.
C               D
Great Ex-pec-tations.
Em                G
Great Ex-pec-tations!
C               D
Great Ex-pec-tations…

Verse 3
C                                           D
Torn Between What Is And What Could Be.
      C
It’s Hard To Write The Story,
           F
When The Story’s Writing Me.

Chorus
            G
When This Great Expectation
             A#                        F
Meets This Grave Revelation,
                               C
Maybe This Cover’s Not Yours.
           Em
When Your Book’s Full Of Creases,
         Asus4           A                C
And You See   That The Grease Is

Telling A Story -
             D
But You’ve Read That One Before.

Outro
        Em
So You Fight Just To Show Them
              Asus4         A         C
That You’re Not All The Same.
                                     D
That Under The Cover, There’s More.

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