My Home Town Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

note : played as harmonics on 12th, 7th and 5th case

G D G

played normally

G G D

 MGy hoDme tEmown

       C      G Am

She's big and she's brown

     D     C     G

She reaches to the sky above

    C             Am             D

An every where you look she's all around you

 MGy baDck yEmard

    C G    Am

Is dirty and hard

   D   C     G

It never seen a flower grown

      C        Am       D

Since I can testify its no garden 

              G   D Em

One of these days                 

          C     G      C     G

I'm gona pack my bags and take a train to some big city

           C         G

Where the lights are bright and

CI now alGl the gAirls are prDetty

  G D Em 

My home folk 

      C    G    Am

Were raised in the smoke

    D  C     G                C

Of firy factory chimney stacks that gave you work

    Am             D

But in return they choked you, 

         E

choked youuuu

Instrumental break

note : on break, Eadd11 chord may be replaced by F#m

E 

E Eadd11 E  

E 

E Eadd11 E 

Uh!

E 

E Eadd11 E  

E 

E Eadd11 E 

E                        Eadd11 E

When a wakeup, i wake up in the morning

A                           Aadd11 A

Work all the day till the sun goes down

E                       Eadd11 E

Gota save up all the money i am earning

A                      Aadd11 A

Gota have enough to kiss this town

Instrumental break

note : on break, Eadd11 chord may be replaced by F#m

E 

E Eadd11 E  

E 

E Eadd11 E 

Uh!

E 

E Eadd11 E  

E 

E Eadd11 E 

E                      Eadd11  E

Borrowing books from the public library

A                      Aadd11     A

Teaching myself about the world outside

E                     Eadd11 E

Pictures of sunny places in fife

A                      

Be goodbye town, goodbye,

 taken a rDiii D7iiii Giiii Biiii EiiiiAde E A

  E             A           G     Bm

My mother started crying at the station

D       F♯m              C     Em 

Asked me if i wouldn't change my mind

C             Bm             A

Afraid the city light were going blind me

Bridge

G♯/A G♯/A A  D   B

  E              A           G     Bm

The whistle blows and terminates my journey

D F♯m           C     Em 

Go reality is right on time

   C                  Bm          A

The factory gate closed once again behind meeeeee

Bridge

G♯/A G♯/A A  C  D

  G   D Em

One of theses days

 I'm gona pCack my bGags and tCake a trGain to some big city

           C         G

Where the lights are bright and

CI now Gall the gAiiiiirls are prDetty

Coda instrumental

G  D  Em 

C   G  Am

D   C  G

C  Am D

 One of these dGays