Chords for Dave Alvin - Gary Indiana 1959

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_ [Am] _ _ _ [Gm] I'm old, weak and [G] gray, [D] and I'm running out [Am] of time. _
[A] _ [Am] _ [D] _ [A] Yeah, but [D] you should have seen me, brother, when I was young and [A] in my [E] prime.
_ _ _ Back in Gary, Indiana, _ [Am] _ [Bm] [D] in [A] 1959. _ _
_ _ _ [D] I [A] was a steel-working man [D] with two kids and a [A] loving wife. _
[D] _ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] [D] And the union was [Abm] strong, [Am] smoke stacks burning day and night.
[D] _ [Am] _ _ Back [E] in Gary, Indiana, _ [D] _ in _ [A] 1959. _
_ _ [Am] _ [D] But [A] then the accountants and the [D] lawyers and the bosses of U.S. Steel [A] sent down to [D] Wood.
We [Am] had to take their rotten [D] deal.
[A] From Birmingham to [D] Pueblo, [Am] Oakland to [D] Allentown.
[Am] The workers got [D] together and we shut [Em] the big boys [Ebm] [D] down.
Yeah, the [Abm] president [Am] and the Supreme Court tried [A] to force us off the [D] line.
[Am] _ _ [E] Back in Gary, Indiana, [Dbm] _ [D] _ in _ [A] 1959. _
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_ _ _ _ Fifty years [D] disappeared in the [Am] blink of an [D] eye.
[A] And I feel like I'm a [D] stranger in a [Am] world that isn't [D] mine.
My [A] dear wife [D] died, [A] my kids all moved [D] away,
[A] because there ain't nothing around [D] here [Am] to make them want to [D] stay.
[A] My factories are in [D] ruins, decent [Am] jobs hard to [D] find,
[A] and you can't get [D] ahead no [A] matter how hard you [D] try.
[Am] Because the big boys make [D] the rules, tough [A] luck for everyone [D] else.
And [Am] out on the street, brother, it's every [G] man for [Am] himself.
I still [Gm] remember [Abm] _ [Am] when we marched [A] side by [D] side.
[Am] _ _ _ [Dbm] Back in Gary, Indiana, [D] _ in _ [Am] 1959. _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] Don't bury my body, brother, [Em] when it's my [D] time to die.
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_ _ _ Just [Em] throw me in that smelter, [Am] _ let my ashes [D] fly. _
_ _ _ [A] Back on to [E] Gary, Indiana, _ [D] _ _ [G] _ [Cm] 1959.
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_ _ _ [Am] Back [E] to Gary, Indiana, _ [Dm] [Am] in _ 1959.
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