Chords for John Mellencamp - Small Town (Live at Farm Aid 2014)

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_ _ [N] 1985 was the first farm aid that we had and _ _ _ _ _ it was in Champaign, Illinois _ _ _ _ _
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This is the first lesson I learned from Willie
So we do this like you know this
What do you call it where you talk to the press?
What do you call that thing? _ _
Whatever it's called you know
Anyway, you're talking to the press and there's a whole bunch of people there, right?
And we're talking about what farm maids hope to establish and what a farm aid supposed to do and then as soon as we're done I
run back to the trailer and
I'm waiting on Willie I _ _ _
Stand around for about 10 minutes.
He's still out there.
I thought what can Willie be doing?
We fucking did the interviews now.
What can we be doing?
_ So I wait for Willie some more _
_ About 45 minutes later Nelson comes back and I go man.
Where the hell have you been? _
He goes I've been doing something you should think about doing _ _
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And I thought to myself
Well, what could that possibly be? _
He says paying attention to your fans _ _
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_ _ So I know you guys [B] have heard those rumors that I'm kind of rough and coarse around the edges.
I know you have
[G#] _ _ But without that stern talking to you from Willie, I'm glad I had it
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_ _ _ _ But we started farm aid [F#] because you know, I noticed that a lot of the small towns around
Where I was living was going out of business.
I didn't understand why and
basically, it was because the small family farm was going out of business that supported the
small drugstore the small, you know
The small license branch all those things were disappearing so I wrote this [G] song
_ _ Well, [D] I was born in [C] small town [G] and _ [D] live in [C] small town
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_ [D] Right down [C] in small town.
Oh
[Am] small
[D] communities
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And all [D] my friends [C] small thing
_ [G] My [D] parents live in the [C] same small thing
[G] _ My job is such [C] small town provides a [Am] little opportunity
[A] _ [D] _ _ I _ _ [G] _
was [D] educated in [C] small town
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[D] taught the fear of Jesus [C] in small town
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used to [D] daydream
[C] in a small town
[Am] Another boy and romantic.
That's me _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] I seen it out [G] in the small town
_ _ Had myself a ball in the [C] small town
_ [G] _ Married a [D] couple girls and took them [C] to that small town
[Am] _ Now, I don't know if it's a [D] small town or if it's me.
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[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ I
Don't know why you guys think that part's funny
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So I don't know if it's a small town or if it's me.
That's where I was at, right?
[A] No, I cannot [G] be where it [G] is that I come from
And I forget the people
[D] loving I
Can [G] be myself here in this small town
People let me be this what [D] I want to eat _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ Got nothing [D] against [G] a big town
_ _ [D] Man, I'm still hey seed [G] enough to say look who's out there in the big town
My bed is in a small town.
[Am] Oh, that's good enough [D] for me
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Cuz I [D] was born in [C] small thing
_ And [D] I could breathe in a [C] small town
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Gonna die [C] in a small town.
[Am] Oh
That's probably where the [D] bear remain _ _ _ _ _
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