Uncle Ted

Slaid Cleaves

Tom original: C Capotraste: Sem capotraste Acordes: 5

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Verse 1

    C
My uncle Ted died wealthy
                       C
All that money was hard won
     Am
My uncle Ted died lonely
       G7                     F   C
In the end he pushed away everyone

Verse 2

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It was in the town of Andrews
                       C
It was nineteen sixty-three
  Am
He wed his high school sweetheart
       G7
Mom's sister, Almadeen

Verse 3

     F                       Am
They put themselves through college
 F            Am
Way down in Alpine
          C
Where the trains snake through the desert
          G7               F  C
And the coyotes echoes chime

Verse 4

 C
Deeny was a teacher
                     C
and Ted he worked the fields
           Am
He-got-the oilmen what they asked for
         G7
And-cut-himself in on the deal

Verse 5

     F               Am
When Teddy made the big time
      F                   Am
We-looked-up to him with pride
     C
No one then suspected
            G7               F C
What-he-had goin' on the side

Verse 6

         C
When he stayed late at the office
He never bothered to explain
           Am
And when I saw what he was sellin'
            G7
Well it was more than pumps and chain

Verse 7

     F                  Am
I guess I wasn't too surprised
         F                      Am
When he brought home the office girl
     C
But Deeny was devastated
           G7                 F  C
When they tore apart her world

Verse 8

           C
You could tell this girl was trouble
But she played on Teddy's pride
 Am
Later on we found out
           G7
her-first-husband was a suicide

Verse 9

 F                 Am
She-turned him against us
        F              Am
One by one we drifted away
    C
My uncle made his choices
           G7                 F  C
There was nothing we could say

Instrumental

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F  C

Verse 10

      C
In a hospital in Houston
With his Texas trophy wife
        Am
And her nephew lawyer waitin'
     G7
As Teddy clung to life

Verse 11

     F                   Am
She would not leave his bedside
          F                  Am
Till he signed the brand new will
       C
She's livin' up in Dallas now
       G7             F  C
In a mansion on a hill

Verse 12

         C
There was no one else around him
In the hour of his death
        Am
It was my hand that he trusted
When he took his dyin' breath

Verse 13

       F                 Am
From a man who left his family
          F            Am
From this man once so proud
 C
Some men like an apology
                G7
That-you-could never say out loud

Verse 14

   C
My uncle Ted died wealthy
All that money was hard won
     Am
My uncle Ted died lonely
       G7                     F   C
In the end he pushed away everyone

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