Chords for Lori Mckenna - Giving Up On Your Hometown
Tempo:
99.05 bpm
Chords used:
A
Bm
D
E
F#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[A]
[Bm] [A] Well, I don't know where the cool kids [Bm] hang on Friday night.
[A] We used to park our parents' car by [Bm] the billboard sign.
ago [A] to build a small high [E]-rise.
abandoned now and it's been that [F#m] way for quite some [E] time.
don't make sense, but the chief [Bm] motel is always open.
[A] Seems like we're sitting in a handbasket [Bm] wondering where it's going.
[A]
[Bm] [A] Well, I don't know where the cool kids [Bm] hang on Friday night.
[A] We used to park our parents' car by [Bm] the billboard sign.
ago [A] to build a small high [E]-rise.
abandoned now and it's been that [F#m] way for quite some [E] time.
don't make sense, but the chief [Bm] motel is always open.
[A] Seems like we're sitting in a handbasket [Bm] wondering where it's going.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] Well, I don't know where the cool kids [Bm] hang on Friday night. _
[A] We used to park our parents' car by [Bm] the billboard sign.
[D] They tore it down years ago [A] to build a small high [E]-rise.
[D] It's abandoned now and it's been that [F#m] way for quite some [E] time.
_ [A] It don't make sense, but the chief [Bm] motel is always open.
[A] Seems like we're sitting in a handbasket [Bm] wondering where it's going.
[D] There's a freshwater shark in a small fish [A] tank behind the counter.
_ [D] The door's always locked and you gotta [F#m] prepay in cash by [E] the hour.
_ [D] The sun sets to look the way they [B] always do.
[D] Over the backyard tree my grandma [E] used to sit under [D] in the afternoon.
And you can't keep everything the way you [E] want it.
[Bm]
Feels like even the ghosts are [D] getting out, leaving up on your [A] hometown.
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] Every single Sunday at 10 a [Bm].m. we were in that pew.
[A] I was married there and baptized [Bm] there and my kids were too.
[D] My mother sang in the women's [A] choir before she died.
[D] And the day they sold that church, [F#m] even the statue of Mother Mary [E] cried.
_ _ [D] The sun sets to look the way they [F#] always do.
[D] Over the backyard tree [F#m] my grandma [B] used to sit under [D] in the afternoon.
And you can't keep everything the way you [B] want [Bm] it.
Feels like even the ghosts are getting [D] out, giving up on your [A] hometown.
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Giving up on your [A] hometown. _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] Every kid that's left just kept going. _ _
[A] And every debt we didn't pay we'd [E] just keep owing.
You're never busy, your daddy's grave, but [Bm] we go by the house.
[A] He'd be working on a car in the driveway [Bm] if he was with us now.
[D] And that porch swing you built for your [A] mom is all but gone.
[D] I guess even when you stay right [F#m] here sometimes you can't [E] go home. _ _ _
Giving up on [A] your hometown.
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Giving up on [A] your hometown. _
_ [Bm] _ Giving up on [A] your hometown.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] Well, I don't know where the cool kids [Bm] hang on Friday night. _
[A] We used to park our parents' car by [Bm] the billboard sign.
[D] They tore it down years ago [A] to build a small high [E]-rise.
[D] It's abandoned now and it's been that [F#m] way for quite some [E] time.
_ [A] It don't make sense, but the chief [Bm] motel is always open.
[A] Seems like we're sitting in a handbasket [Bm] wondering where it's going.
[D] There's a freshwater shark in a small fish [A] tank behind the counter.
_ [D] The door's always locked and you gotta [F#m] prepay in cash by [E] the hour.
_ [D] The sun sets to look the way they [B] always do.
[D] Over the backyard tree my grandma [E] used to sit under [D] in the afternoon.
And you can't keep everything the way you [E] want it.
[Bm]
Feels like even the ghosts are [D] getting out, leaving up on your [A] hometown.
_ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] Every single Sunday at 10 a [Bm].m. we were in that pew.
[A] I was married there and baptized [Bm] there and my kids were too.
[D] My mother sang in the women's [A] choir before she died.
[D] And the day they sold that church, [F#m] even the statue of Mother Mary [E] cried.
_ _ [D] The sun sets to look the way they [F#] always do.
[D] Over the backyard tree [F#m] my grandma [B] used to sit under [D] in the afternoon.
And you can't keep everything the way you [B] want [Bm] it.
Feels like even the ghosts are getting [D] out, giving up on your [A] hometown.
_ _ _ [Bm] _
Giving up on your [A] hometown. _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] Every kid that's left just kept going. _ _
[A] And every debt we didn't pay we'd [E] just keep owing.
You're never busy, your daddy's grave, but [Bm] we go by the house.
[A] He'd be working on a car in the driveway [Bm] if he was with us now.
[D] And that porch swing you built for your [A] mom is all but gone.
[D] I guess even when you stay right [F#m] here sometimes you can't [E] go home. _ _ _
Giving up on [A] your hometown.
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Giving up on [A] your hometown. _
_ [Bm] _ Giving up on [A] your hometown.
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