My home town by the shadows
chorded by ross
G Em
My home town
C Am
She big and she’s brown
D G
She reaches to the sky above
C Am
An every where you look she’s all around you
G Em
My back yard
C Am
Is dirty an hard
D G
It never seen a flower grown
C Am
Since I can testify its no garden
G
one of these days
G C G C G
Am gona pack my bags an take a train to some big city
G C G C G
Where the lights are bright an I now all the girls a pretty
G Em
My home folk
C Am
Were raised in the smoke
D G
Of firy factory chimney stacks that gave you work
C D
But in return they choked you,
G
choked youuuuuuuuuuuuuu
U
(HANK PLAY INSTRUMENTAL)
G Em
When a wakeup
C Am
A wake up in the morning
D G
Work all the day till the sun goes down
C Am
Gota save up all the money am earning
C Am
Gota have enough to kiss this town
U
(HANK PLAY INSTRUMENTAL)
G Em
Borrowing books from the public library
C Am
Teaching myself about the world outside
D G
Pictures of sunny places in fife
C Am
Be goodbye town
Goodbye
Em D Em
Am taken A riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide
G Em
My mother started crying at the station
C Am
Asked me if I wouldn’t change my mind
D G
Am afraid the city light were going blind
D Am
The whistle blows and terminates my journey
G Am
Go reality is right on time
D G
The factory gate closed behind meeeeee
G
One of theses days
G C G C G
Am gona pack my bags an take a train to some big city
G C G C G
Where the lights are bright an I now all the girls a pretty
G
One of these days