Capo 4th fret
Standard (EADGBE)
Well the whole town came out to watch
the day they paved the parking lot
Somebody hung a ribbon up
and then they cut it down
And that big white rose upon that sign
put innocence in all our lives
We could see its neon lights
half a mile out
Gas was fifty cents a gallon
They put it in for you
And they'd pump your tires and check your oil
and wash your windows too
And we'd shine those cars bright as bright
And we'd go park underneath that light
Stare out at the prarie sky
There was nothing else to do
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But now there's plywood for glass
where the windows all got smashed
And there's just a chuck of concrete
where those old pumps used to stand
There's a couple of cars half outta the ground
And that oil sign still spins 'round and 'round
But I guess the White Rose filling station's just a memory now
And the girls would spend a couple a bucks
just to meet the boys workin' at the pumps
And they'd grow up and fall in love
And they all moved away
Strangers used to stop and ask
how far they'd driven off the map
And then they built that overpass
And now they stay out on the highway
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And that neon sign was the heart and soul
of this old one horse town
And it's like it lost its will to live
the day they shut it down
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(Repeat last line of chorus)