Chords for Corb Lund - Lament For Lester Cousins

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_ _ _ _ Lester's cousins left his brothers on a work truck filled with others,
Cause his father left his mother [Bm] years ago.
_ _ [B] Lester's mother took in lovers, beating clothes of his younger brothers,
So at thirteen years our Lester chose [E] to go.
_ [A] Men introduced [E] him to hard labor, moving earth and stacking hay,
Were all the options that were open [B] to the boy.
_ And the same men showed our Lester lady luck, subpoena, and blest her,
With a trusting [E] young disciple to enjoy.
_ With the gambling came the drinking, and the cocaine and the sinking,
That accompanies the man who's falling [B] down.
_ _ Pretty soon the fighting, and the whoring every night,
And pills and losing left his spirit [E] on the ground.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] For there comes a time, uneven, [E] hard, and men need to believe in something more,
And look within and be [B] afraid.
_ When a particularly rough night took his friend in one more gunfight,
For the first [F#] time in his hard [Em] life Lester prayed.
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Lester now, Lester now, keep it together,
_ We all want to see you [B] succeed.
_ _ _ _ _ Lester now, Lester now, hold it together,
Cause your goodness is what the [E] world needs.
_ _ _ _ Lester now, Lester now, keep it together,
And don't lose that spirit [F#m] of yours, _
_ [B] For the sake of us all, Lester, [F#m] try not to [C#] fall,
[B] With the weight of the world at [E] your door. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Well God let Lester see a lady who was finally worth the wait,
He bought her a ring, he changed his ways, and [B] settled down.
_ And he farmed 40 acres, raised a daughter, loved his maker,
Loved his wife, and earned respect all [E] through the town.
_ Hard at work, and clean, and sober, 15 years from this October,
Where all the vices of his past, they [B] disappeared.
_ Very little did [C] he know then, that the young out of [B] control men,
That his mother learned [F#] to dread would reappear.
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_ _ _ _ his life and home was shattered, and his wife and daughter battered,
When the kind he knew so well [B] came back around.
_ An incontainable aggressor, induced Lester to regress,
And coldly murdered those who'd raped the [E] love he'd found.
_ It didn't take long to find him, more convicted, more confined,
Into a cellblock full of [B] wounded prisoner doom.
_ Cause despite his mother's will, Lester's cousins was a killer,
And I who'd never lived to leave [E] jail at two.
_ [D#] _ [E] _ Lester now, Lester now, keep it _ together,
We all want to see you [B] succeed. _
_ _ _ Lester now, Lester now, hold it together,
Cause your goodness is what the [E] world needs. _ _
_ Lester now, Lester now, keep it together,
And don't lose that spirit of [F#m] yours.
_ _ [B] For the sake of us all, Lester, [F#m] try not to fall,
With [B] the fate of the world on [E] the floor.
_ _ _ [F#m] For the sake of us all, Lester, [B] try not to fall,
[F#m] With the hate [B] of the world as [E] your whole. _
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