My City Was Gone Chords by Pretenders

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[Bm] _ [E] _ [D] _ [E] _ _ _ [D] I went back to Ohio, [Em] _ _ _ but [F#m] my city was [G] gone.
[E] _ _ _ There [B] was no [G] train station.
[Em] _ _ [Bm] _ There [E] was no [G] downtown.
[Em] _ _ _ South [Em] Howard had disappeared.
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[A] All [Em] my favorite places, _ [E] _ [B] my [A] city had [Em] been pulled down.
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[E] Reduced [G] to [E] parking _ _ [Bm] spaces.
Hey, oh, where did it go, Ohio? _
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[A] I went back to [D] Ohio, [G] _ [E] _ _ _
but my family was [G] gone.
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I stood on the [G] back [E] porch.
_ [G] _ [E] There [B] was [E] nobody [Em] home.
_ _ _ [E] I was stunned and [G] amazed.
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My childhood [G] [E] memories, _ _ _ saw the [G] swirl of cats,
[Em] _ _ _ locked the window, the [G] _ [E] trees.
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Hey, oh, where did you go, [Bm] Ohio?
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[B] I went [E] back to [G] Ohio, [E] _ _ _ _
[B] but my [A] pretty [D] countryside
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had been paved in the [G] middle [E] by _ _ a government [D] that [Em] had no pride. _
The farms of [D] Ohio [Em] had _ been [Bm] replaced [A] by [G] shopping [Em] _ malls. _
And music [G] filled the [E] air _ _ _ from Seneca [G] to Cahoga [E] Falls.
_ [B] Say, hey, oh, where did you go, _ [D] Ohio?
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_ [D] I [E] went back to Ohio, but my childhood memories,
saw the swirl of cats, _ locked the window, the trees. _
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