Chords for Deric Ruttan - Main Street, 1979 - Official Video

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Legs sticking to the vinyl seats, ice cream truck goes by on the street.
My little brother doesn't even look, head buried in a comic book.
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Dad comes back with cigarettes, radio plays Benny and the Jets.
[Ab] Mama [Eb] sings, says don't touch that dial, [Ab] .
[Eb] daddy just smiles.
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[Cm] And we roll out of the [Bb].
5 [Eb] and dime, .
[Ab] Main Street .
[Bb] [Eb] 1979.
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Past the park and the hardware store, daddy waves to the man in the door.
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Stop down at the KFC, son, there's chicken smelling [Eb] up the backseat.
Mama says, you boys leave that bucket alone, we'll all eat when we [Ab] get home.
Catch my dad in the side view mirror, grinning ear to [Eb] ear.
[Cm] He was holding [Bb] mama's hand [Eb] real tight, .
[Ab] Main Street [Bb] 1979.
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[Cm] wonder now [Bb] whose town this is, [Ab] as I roll in with [Eb] my wife and kids.
[Fm] Nothing seems to change, [Bb] but nothing stays the [Eb] same.
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[Eb] Daddy drove on and there he was, loading lumber on a flatbed truck.
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Grandpa waved and smiled real big, Lord how he loved us grandkids.
Six years later, when the cancer came, [Bb] that old man [Eb] didn't know my name.
[Ab] Wish now dad had stopped the car, and I'd run for a hug [Eb] from grandpa's arms.
[Cm] But I barely waved [Bb] as we [Eb] drove by, .
[Ab] Main Street [Bb] 1979.
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[Ab] What I'd give [Bb] for one [Cm] more ride, [Ab] down Main Street [Bb] 1979.
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