Chords for Mia Skäringer & Jill Johnson - My Hometown (Live @ Jills veranda)

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[B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ I [B] was eight years old and running with a dime in my [F#] hand _ _
Into the bus stop to pick up a [B] paper for my old man
I sat on his lap in the big old buick and seared as we drove [F#] through town
_ He tousled my hair and said, son, [B] take a good look around
This is your hometown
_ This _ is your hometown [F#] _ _ Your hometown
_ _ This [B] is your _ [E] hometown
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Sixty-five, tension was running high in my high [F#] school
_ There was lots of fights between [B] black and white
There was nothing you could _ do
Two cars had a light on a Saturday night
In the back street there was a [F#] gun
_ Words were passed [B] at a gunshot blast _
Troubled times [E] had come _ [B] to my hometown
_ To _ _ _ my [F#] hometown _ _ My hometown
_ _ To _ [B] _
my _ hometown _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] Lonely streets, whitewashed windows, and [B]
vacant stores
_ _ _ [G#m] Seems like there ain't nobody [B] wants to come down here no _ _ more
[E] They're closing [B] down [E] the textile mill [B] _
on the railroad tracks _ _ _
Foreman [E] says these jobs are going [B] boys
In the _ rain, coming [F#] _ back [B] to your hometown _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Your hometown _ Your hometown _ _ Your _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] hometown _
[B] Last _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ night me and Kate were laid in bed
Talking about [F#] getting out
_ _ _ Packing up our bags and maybe [B] _ _ heading south
[E] _ [B] I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our [F#] own _
Last night I set him up behind the wheel and said
[B] Son, take a good [E] look around
[B] _ _ _ This is your hometown
_ _ This is your [F#] hometown _ _ Your hometown
_ _ This [B] is your hometown
_ _ This is your hometown _ _ _ Your _ _ _ _ [F#] hometown _ _
This is your hometown
_ _ Your _ [B] _ _ _ hometown _ _
This is your [Bm] hometown _ _ _