Alabaster Chords by The Wood Brothers

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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ the city in a subway [A] car.
[C] _ She feels just like a shooting [Gm] star.
_ _ [G] Never thought she [Gm] could get
so far from [C] her old man.
[Gm] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Gm] The last phone booth in New York City, [Am] ringing [C] all day, calling
somebody [Gm] home.
She doesn't answer.
She [Bb] walks faster.
[C] _ _ She won't be going back [G] to Alabaster.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ [G] _ Miles and [Gm] miles away, she still feels [E] it.
Scrape of his chin, bruise on her spirit.
[Gm] _ [G] Home is calling, but she [Gm] won't get near it [C] ever again. _ _ _
[Gm] _ [G] Snaps on the gas, just to harness
the [Bb] anger.
[C] Last thing he'd do [Gm] is try to understand her.
[G] Stuck in time like a fly in the [Bb] amber.
[C] _ [F] Never [Gm] transits. _ _
[G] _ The last phone booth in New York City, [C] ringing all day, calling somebody
[Gm] home.
She doesn't answer.
She walks [F] faster.
_ [C] _ She won't be [Gm] going back to [Am] _
[Gm] Alabaster.
_ _ She
won't [Dm] be [C] going back.
_ She won't be going back to _
[G] Alabaster.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _ _
_ [E] _ [Dm] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _
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_ [C] _ _ [N] _ _ _ [Gm] Time passes.
[F] Distance grows
[Cm] wider.
_ Dark future is brighter and brighter.
She's got a new [Gm] heart beating inside her.
She's her own master.
She won't be going back.
She's her own master.
She won't be going back.
She's her own master.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Last phone booth [Bb] in New York City, [Am] ringing all day, calling somebody [Gm] home.
[G] She doesn't answer.
She [Bb] walks [C] faster. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ Last [Gm] phone booth in New York [C] City, ringing all day, calling somebody [Gm] home.
She doesn't [Bb] answer.
She walks [C] faster.
She won't be going [Gm] back.
She won't be going back to _ [G] Alabaster.
_ [Bb] Yea, she won't be going [C] back.
_ [D] She won't be going back [E] to [Dm] Alabaster.
_ _ [E] She won't be going back.
[D] _ [Db] [Gm] She won't be going
back to Alabaster.
_ _ [A] [Gm] She [Dm] won't be [C] going back.
_ [Gm] She won't be going back to _ [G]
Alabaster.
[E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
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