Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

, , x4 (no last time)

Let me tell you all a little story of the things I've found,

Hanging out and drinking with my friends in the cathedral grounds,

And later dodging drunks as we dance along Jewry Street,

As we wander up town to the railway our friends to meet,

 There's something about coming back to your hometown again,

 The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,

 And though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,

 I'm a Wessex Boy and when I'm here I'm home

(chords that you can play instead are: Dsus4, Em7, G x4)

Let me tell you all a little story of the things I've lost,

Huddling for warmth on the top step of the Buttercross,

 Sitting on the benches by the bridges at the riverside,

Of counting down the hours for the buses cause I missed my ride

 There's something about coming back to your hometown again,

 The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,

 And though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,

 I'm a Wessex Boy, a Wessex boy and when I'm here I'm home

 And one day I will hear this song anonymous and sweet,

 Ringing out from a buskers guitar on the ancient city streets,

 I'll pause a while and smile before I continue on alone,

 And somebody else will sing the words and I'll feel like I'm home

the 0's here are played fast and quietly (you could probably go without them)

play this during the ba ba ba's:

 There's something about hometowns you never can escape

 The triumphs and the tragedies, the tawdry little fates

 The welling of nostalgia, the feeling kinda strange

 Cause despite all the little changes, this place still feels the same

 There's something about coming back to your hometown again,

 The place where you grew up and where you found your firmest friends,

 And though none of them still live here, I've got nowhere to go,

 I'm a Wessex Boy, a Wessex boy and when I'm here I'm home

 outro part 1: , , x4