Biography:
Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is an American musician. Best known for her hit single "Sunny Came Home" from the album "A Few Small Repairs".
Colvin's formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10. Her first public concert was at age 15 at the University of Illinois campus. Colvin cites Joni Mitchell as a primary influence on her music
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Other songs:
- A Whole New You
- Cry Like An Angel
- Diamond In The Rough
- Even Here We Are
- Fill Me Up
- Get Out Of This House
- Heart On Ice
- Hold On
- I Dont Know Why
- I Dont Need Anything This Christmas
- I Used To Be A King
- If I Were Brave
- If These Walls Could Speak
- Ill Say Im Sorry Now
- Killing The Blues
- Knowing What I Know
- Let It Slide
- Never Saw Blue Like That
- New Thing Now
- Object Of My Affection
- One Cool Remove
- Polaroids
- Ricochet In Time
- Round Of Blues
- Satin Sheets
- Shotgun Down The Avalanche
- Someday
- Suicide Alley
- Summer Dress
- Sunny Came Home
- Talk Around Town
- Texas Blues
- The Bird
- The Facts About Jimmy
- These Four Walls
- Trouble
- Twilight
- When You Know
- Wild Country
- Witchita Skyline
- You And The Mona Lisa
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[Verse]
D G A D
There ain't a lot that you can do in this town
D G A D
You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around
D G A D
Go to school and you'll learn to read and write
D G A D
So you can walk into the county bank and sign away your life
D G A D
I work at the fillin' station on the interstate
D G A D
Pumpin gasoline and countin out of state plates
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They ask me how far into Memphis girl
G A D
And where's the nearest beer
D G A D
They don't even know that there's a town around here
Bm G A D
Someday I'm finally gonna let go
Bm G A D
Cause I know there's a better way
Bm G A D
And I wanna know what's over that rainbow
A G A D D G A D
I'm gonna get out of here someday
D D G A D
Someday
D G A D
Now my brother went to college cause he playes football
D G A D
Me I never even got thru high school at all
D G A D
I got me a 67 Chevy, she's low and sleek and black
D G A D
Someday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back
Bm G A D
Someday I'm finally gonna let go
Bm G A D
Cause I know there's a better way
Bm G A D
And I wanna know what's over that rainbow
A G A D D G A D
I'm gonna get out of here someday
D D G A D
Someday
D G A D
There ain't a lot that you can do in this town
D G A D
You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around
D G A D
Go to school and you'll learn to read and write
D G A D
So you can walk into the county bank and sign away your life
D G A D
I work at the fillin' station on the interstate
D G A D
Pumpin gasoline and countin out of state plates
D
They ask me how far into Memphis girl
G A D
And where's the nearest beer
D G A D
They don't even know that there's a town around here
Bm G A D
Someday I'm finally gonna let go
Bm G A D
Cause I know there's a better way
Bm G A D
And I wanna know what's over that rainbow
A G A D D G A D
I'm gonna get out of here someday
D D G A D
Someday
D G A D
Now my brother went to college cause he playes football
D G A D
Me I never even got thru high school at all
D G A D
I got me a 67 Chevy, she's low and sleek and black
D G A D
Someday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back
Bm G A D
Someday I'm finally gonna let go
Bm G A D
Cause I know there's a better way
Bm G A D
And I wanna know what's over that rainbow
A G A D D G A D
I'm gonna get out of here someday
D D G A D
Someday
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