Decemberists - Sporting Life guitar tab

Artist: The Decemberists

Album: Picaresque

Song: The Sporting Life

G

I fell on the playing feild

Em

The work of an errant heel

C

The din of the crowd and the loud commotion

Am D

When deafening silence and stopped motion

G

The season was almost done

Em

We'd managed it twelve to one

C

So far I had known no humiliation

Am D

In front of my friends and close relation

Cmaj7 G

There's my father looking on

Cmaj7 G

And there's my girlfriend arm in arm

Em

With the captain of the other team

C

And all of this is clear to me

D C

They condescend to fix on me a frown

Am D

How they love

G

The sporting life

G

And father had had such hopes

Em

For a son who would take the ropes

C

And fufill all his old athletic aspirations

Am D

But apparently now there's some complications

G

But while I am lying here

Em

Trying to fight the tears

C

I'll prove to the crowd that I come out stronger

Am D

Though I think I might lie here a little longer

Cmaj7 G

'Cause there's my coach, he's looking down

Cmaj7 G

The disappointment in his knitted brow

Em

I should have known he thinks again,

C

"I never should have put him in"

D C

He turns to load the lemonade away

Am D

And breathes in deep

G

The sporting life

Em

The sporting life

C

The sporting life

G

How he loves

(Interlude:)

G Em C G

Cmaj7 G

There's my father looking on

Cmaj7 G

And there's my girlfriend arm in arm

Em

With the captain of the other team

C

And all of this is clear to me

D C

They condescend to fix on me a frown

Am D

How they love

G

The sporting life

Em

The sporting life

C

The sporting life

G

How they love

(Outro:)

G Em C G

G Em C G