Key: A major•
Verse 1
What the winter has taken away
Make a note of what's
been left for dead
Right now, to be honest
I don't care what the people say
Or if the summer sun don't
go on and beat my head
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The power's out downtown tonight
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But it don't matter to me
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I'm still gonna walk around tonight
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And write it down
This uneven sidewalk
Made of stone so blue
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Sometimes even trips me in the day
But right now I can hear it talking
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I can hear the long gone people say
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One thing brighter than a barn dance
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And then one night we
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D
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they burned it down
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Nineteenth century Irishman
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Dug that big canal and then
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The railroad come and
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blew it all away
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Big old German breweries
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Cigar -shirt -rigged factories
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Only whispered voices
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now remain
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Paddy went uptown to vote
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On election day
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They hit his head like a billy goat
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his unmarred blade
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Distant waters, great depression
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Sometimes leave a big impression
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But sometimes people bring
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it on themselves
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T -Car garage, great invention
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D
Chuckin' middle class ambition
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Leave your road downtown
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and hollow shell
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Your shiny strip
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B
Built to serve one company
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They're moving south
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
now in the summer
This desolation haze
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Might be a bit more pre
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cious than it seems
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Cause the city folk
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s just found us
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They want to make our old downtown
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look like them pictures in their
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magazine
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Power 's coming back all night,
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you better walk real fast
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cause it ain't gonna last
F#m
B
Oh, there's something insidious
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been creeping around this town
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Now it's own facsimile is
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So write it down,
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write it down
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Paint a picture and write it down
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I'll take it in my stride
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA F#m B E Dm...
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Capo: 2
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