Chords for Peter Rivera - "Tobacco Road"

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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] Can we do a little blues song?
_ _ [C] This is real [Dm] bluesy.
_ You know, [D] everybody, no [C] matter where you're from, [D] think back a bit, everybody loves their
hometown [C] no matter [Dm] where it [G] was.
You know, when you were this age down [C] here a little bit, it was [A] great growing up wherever
it was, 8, [C] 9, 10 years old, 11 years old.
[G#] For me, that was Detroit, [A] Michigan.
Yeah, we got some Detroiters out there.
[D] _
Well, maybe some of you [Dm] remember when Detroit got kind of scary about 1967.
The city was burning down, there was [A] sniper fire and tanks in the streets.
It [D] wasn't only Detroit, it was south side of Chicago and Baltimore and Washington, Atlanta.
[C] _ [D] It was a tough time, but it's still the [C] hometown.
[Dm] And even after all of [C] that, still in love with Detroit. _
[Dm] But here's the story.
I [D] _ was [C] born in a dump.
_ [D#] Mama [C] died [D] and daddy got so drunk.
[A] He left me here _ to die or grow _ in the [E] middle of tobacco [A] road. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] I grew up in [A]
a rusty shack [G] and all I owned [C]
[D] was hanging on [G#] my back.
[Dm] The Lord [C] knows [A] how I love [Dm] _ this [E] place called tobacco road.
[G] But it's [Dm] home, the _ [A] _ _ [Dm] only life I've ever [D] known. _ _ _
[A] _ Well, the Lord knows [G] how I love tobacco [Dm] road.
Yeah, yeah.
All [C] right, wait a minute.
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[C] I'm going to leave [D] and get a job.
Get a [Dm] job.
With the help [D] and the grace of God.
I'll [C] save all my money, [A] get rich I know.
[Dm] _
Bring it [E] back to tobacco road.
[D] _
_ _ [A] Oh, yeah.
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Well, well, well.
Going to get me [C] some dynamite.
[D] Going to bring me a break.
Got to have all you want.
Going to [D] tell you not to [Dm] start again.
I'll build it down, [C] yes I will.
[D] I'll be proud to show.
And [N] keep that name of tobacco _ [F#] road.
Because [Dm] it's home, my home town, yeah.
It's the only life I don't [D] want to own ever known.
_ [Am] _ _
_ [A] I despise you because [G] you're filthy.
_ [F]
But I [A] love you [G] because you're [Dm] home.
That's my home.
_ That's my home.
You got me a real place.
Feel like a real place.
Going to let this dynamite.
[D] Going to bring me a break.
_ [Dm] I'm going to blow you up, going to tear you down.
Because it's home, tobacco road.
_ Tobacco road.
[D] _ _ [Dm]
[A] Because I _ _ _ _ _ despise you, yeah.
I despise you because you're dirty.
[G]
You're so run down.
You ain't safe at night no more.
I'm a woman on the shelf.
I'm a woman on the shelf.
But I still love you.
I still love you. _ _ _
I still love you because you're [D] my home, yeah.
That's my home.
[Dm] That's my home.
[F#] Tobacco road, [E] road.
Talk about the east side of Detroit City, [F#] yeah, yeah.
Tobacco road, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright.
[A] You sure [G] got it.
_ [F] I'm so run down.
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Alright.
Thank you very much.
Peter Rivera. _ _ _ _