Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Gretchen Peters - Border Town
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Am Cmaj7
C
Carmelita was a street angel
Am7 Am Cmaj7
But she kept her halo hid
C
Never learned to read or write so well
G Cmaj7
She was just a farmer's kid
C
She took communion at the age of twelve
Am7 Am Dm
She wore a cross of wood
She heard the clanging of the mission bell
G
And she vowed that she'd be good
CHORUS:
F C C6
But the world goes 'round
C
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
F G
There's always someone trying to keep you down
C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7
In a border town
C
Mamacita said, you can't go down
Am7 Am Cmaj7
Stay away from the white man's world
C
She drew the line at the edge of town
G Cmaj7
For her little dark-haired girl
C
But Carmelita she had other plans
Am7 Am Dm
And her life had just begun
She ran away with a black-eyed man
G
And he left her with a black-eyed son
CHORUS:
F C C6
And the world goes 'round
C
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
F G
There's always someone trying to keep you down
C
In a border town
INSTRUMENTAL: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7
C
Carmelita, now she's settling down
Am7 Am Cmaj7
She's not so free and wild
C
She rides a bus all the way across town
G Cmaj7
To love somebody else's child
C
Shows up each morning right on time
Am7 Am Dm
And at six o'clock she's gone
She keeps her distance and she toes the line
G
'Cause she knows where it's been drawn
CHORUS:
F C C6
And the world goes 'round
C
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
F G
There's always someone trying to keep you down
C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am
In a border town (in a border town)
C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7
In a border town
OUTRO: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Am7 Am
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Am Cmaj7
C
Carmelita was a street angel
Am7 Am Cmaj7
But she kept her halo hid
C
Never learned to read or write so well
G Cmaj7
She was just a farmer's kid
C
She took communion at the age of twelve
Am7 Am Dm
She wore a cross of wood
She heard the clanging of the mission bell
G
And she vowed that she'd be good
CHORUS:
F C C6
But the world goes 'round
C
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
F G
There's always someone trying to keep you down
C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7
In a border town
C
Mamacita said, you can't go down
Am7 Am Cmaj7
Stay away from the white man's world
C
She drew the line at the edge of town
G Cmaj7
For her little dark-haired girl
C
But Carmelita she had other plans
Am7 Am Dm
And her life had just begun
She ran away with a black-eyed man
G
And he left her with a black-eyed son
CHORUS:
F C C6
And the world goes 'round
C
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
F G
There's always someone trying to keep you down
C
In a border town
INSTRUMENTAL: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7
C
Carmelita, now she's settling down
Am7 Am Cmaj7
She's not so free and wild
C
She rides a bus all the way across town
G Cmaj7
To love somebody else's child
C
Shows up each morning right on time
Am7 Am Dm
And at six o'clock she's gone
She keeps her distance and she toes the line
G
'Cause she knows where it's been drawn
CHORUS:
F C C6
And the world goes 'round
C
And it's hard enough to stand your ground
F G
There's always someone trying to keep you down
C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am
In a border town (in a border town)
C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7
In a border town
OUTRO: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Am7 Am
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