Lori Mckenna

Giving Up On Your Hometown(Chords)

Lori Mckenna

Key: G

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Capo on 2nd fret
	        


Intro: G   Am   G   Am 

verse 1 
        G                                      Am 
Well, I don't know where the cool kids hang on Friday night 
        G                            Am 
Used to park our parent's car by the billboard sign 
     C                                 G 
They tore it down years ago to build a small high-rise 
      C                                       Em         D 
It's abandoned now and it's been that way for quite some time 


verse 2 
   G                                        Am 
It don't make sense, but the cheap motel is always open 
      G                                              Am 
Seems like we're sitting in a hand-basket, wondering where it's going 
          C                                       G 
There's a freshwater shark in a small fish tank behind the counter 
C                                             Em          D 
Door's always locked and you gotta pre-pay in cash by the hour 

C Em D The sunsets still look the way they always do C Em D C Over the backyard trees my grandma used to sit under in the afternoon Em D And you can't keep everything the way you want it Am C Feels like even the ghosts are getting out G Am G Am Giving up on your hometown
verse 3 G Am Every single Sunday, 10am, we were in that pew G Am I was married there and baptized there and my kids were too C G My mother sang in the women's choir before she died C Em D And the day they sold that church even the statue of Mother Mary cried
C Em D The sunsets still look the way they always do C Em D C Over the backyard trees my grandma used to sit under in the afternoon Em D And you can't keep everything the way you want it Am C Feels like even the ghosts are getting out G Am Giving up on your hometown G Am Giving up on your hometown
Bridge C Am And every kid that's left, just kept going G D And every debt we didn't pay, we just keep owing G Am Never visit your daddy's grave, but we go by the house G Am He'd be working on a car in the driveway if he was with us now C G And that porch swing you built for your mama, is all but gone C Em G D I guess even when you stay right here, sometimes you can't go home Outro G Am Giving up on your hometown G Am Giving up on your hometown G Am G Am Giving up on your hometown

Written by Lori McKenna

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