Chords for Aaron Lewis - Massachusetts

_ [D] Boston's number one for new hit country.
[G] Country 1025.
_ [D#] I'm going to play a song that I wrote _ five or six years ago.
I wrote it while sitting on the front steps of my house
_ up in the foothills of the Berkshires at the [E] other end of the state.
In [G] the springtime, [E] the [D#] peeper frogs that come out
and [D] they kind of _ just_
in any [D#] sort of wetness in the woods.
[F] It was that time of year and [E] they were so loud that [D#] night.
And _ [E] that sound really [D] wrote this song.
_ _ [D#] It's off of the first _ country record that I ever recorded.
[F#] It's a song very dear to me.
It's called Massachusetts. _ _
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_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [A#m] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [B] _ _
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_ [F#] plays the tune
I sit here on the stairs
[D#m] And listen to [C#] the _ [F#] nighttime
As the daylight fades away _ _ _ _
[F#] _ Such [C#] a haunting and [D#m] familiar tune
_ _ When I [F#] hear it in the distance
I can say _ that I'm home
_ In _ [D#m] Massachusetts _
[C#] _ [B] Where my daughters and my wife, they wait for [C#] me
_ Oh, no, no
_ _ _ But the [D#m] truth is _
[C#] It's where I always am
It's where I [C#] long to be
_ Because _ [F#] I'm home
_ _ [D#m] whistling _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] The North Shore's where [D#m] my father lives
[C#]
I wear my [B] red socks hat
Around the world with pride
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] But the [C#] Berkshires are where [D#m] my heart is
[C#]
When I see [B] them in the distance
I could [C#]
cry
_ _ [C#] Because I'm [F#] home _
[G#] In _ [D#m] Massachusetts
Where my [B] daughters and my wife, they wait for me
_ _ [C#] Oh, no, no _ _
But [D#m] the truth is
It's where [B] I always am
It's where I long to _ be
_ _ [D#m] And _ [C#] Nylah started [B] preschool
And Indy just [C#] turned two
[F#] And Zoe's just the [C#] perfect mix of me and [D#m] you
And they keep getting [B] older
And time keeps going [C#] by
And [F#] to think about it [C#] makes your daddy wanna cry _ _ _ _
So I just pass the sign that welcomes me [A#m] to Worthington
_ _ [B] Established long before this [F#] country [C#] came to be
A _ _ _
[F#] _ place [C#] that hasn't really [D#m] changed with time
[C#] The way this [F#] country that I love used to be
Because _ _ [F#] I'm home
[C#] _ In [D#m] Massachusetts _
_ [F#] Where my [B] daughters and my wife, they wait [C#] for me
_ Oh, [F#] no, no
_ [C#] _ But the [D#m] truth is
It's [F#] where I [B] always am
It's where I long to be
_ Because _ [F#]
I'm home
[C#] In [D#m] Massachusetts _
Where my [B] hero teaches classes [C#] every day
_ Where my friends, they don't [D#m] treat me different
It's [F#] where [B] my family is
It's where I'll always [C#] stay
_ Because _ _
[G#] _ [F#] I'm _ home _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
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[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _