{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1909565,"song":"Surviving Twin","artist":"Loudon Wainwright III","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11429263-surviving-twin-chords-by-loudon-wainwright-iii/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1909565?type=chord","rating":4.75299,"votes":5,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n     Last week I attended a family affair[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd a few remarked upon my recent growth of facial hair[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou look just like your father did with that beard someone said[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI answered back I am him even though my old man's dead[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI didn't want to be him well at first I did[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I loved and looked up to him as a little kid[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe sent me to his old school I was a numeral with his name [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd he gave me this gold signet ring and he wore one just the same[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I guess that I believed him and probably it was true[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen he told me I was just like him, that's what some fathers do[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut a father's always older and my dad was rather tall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWho says size doesn't matter, he was big and I was small[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI needed to be big enough to be someone someday[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I learned I had to beat him and that was the only way[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI learned I had to fight him, my own flesh, blood, bone and kin[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut I felt I was just like him can a man's son be his twin[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFirst we fought for my mother, that afforded little joy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen he left she was heart broken and I was still their little boy[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I started to get bigger and to win the ugly game[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I made a little money and I got a bit of fame[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw how this could wound him, yes this could do the trick[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd if I made it big enough I could kill him off quick[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut how can you murder someone in a way that they don't die[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI didn't want to kill him, that would be suicide[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI got frightened so I backed off I let up and I was through[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd in the end he did himself in usually that's what we do[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm alive and he is dead and neither of us won[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt's spoiled for the victor once the vanquishing is done[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA man becomes immortal through his daughter or his son [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut when he fears his legacy, a man can come undone[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the beard is a reminder I'm a living part of him[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAlthough my father's dead and gone I'm his surviving twin[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAlthough the old man's dead and gone I'm his surviving twin[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nD G A G D\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD G A G D\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD G A G D\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n\n\n\nD G","chords":["D","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}