Giving Up On Your Hometown(Chords)

	        


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