Giving Up On Your Hometown chords by
Lori Mckenna

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Key: A major

Intro 1

Verse 1
G G 
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Well, I don't know
Where the cool kids hang
Am Am 
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on Fri day night
G G 
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Used to park our parent's car
Am Am 
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by the billboard sign
C C 
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They tore it down years ago
G G 
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to build a small highrise
C C 
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It's abandoned now
And it's been that way for a while,
Em Em 
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sometime

Verse 2
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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G G 
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It don't make sense
Am Am 
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But the cheap motel is al  ways open
G G 
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Seems like we're sitting
in a handbasket
Am Am 
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Wondering where it's going
C C 
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There's a freshwater shark
in a small fish tank
G G 
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Behind the counter
C C 
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Door's always locked
And you gotta pre- pay in cash
Em Em 
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C C 
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D D 
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by the hour

Verse 3
C C 
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The sunsets still look the way
D D 
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they always do
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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C C 
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Over the backyard trees
D D 
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My grandma used to sit under
C C 
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in the afternoon
And you can't keep everything
D D 
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the way you want it
Am Am 
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Feels like even the ghosts
C C 
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are getting out
Giving up on your homet
G G 
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own
Am Am 
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C C 
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G G 
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Verse 4
Am Am 
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G G 
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Every single sunday, 10AM
Am Am 
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We were in  that pew
G G 
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I was married there and baptized there
Am Am 
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And my kids were too
C C 
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My mother sang in the women's
G G 
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choir before she died
C C 
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And the day they sold that church
Even the statue of Mother
Em Em 
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Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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Mary cried

Verse 5
C C 
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The sunsets still look the
D D 
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way they always do
C C 
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Over the backyard trees
Em Em 
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D D 
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My grandma used to sit un
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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C C 
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der      in the afternoon
And you can't keep everything
D D 
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the way you want it
Am Am 
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Feels like even the ghosts
C C 
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are getting out
G G 
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Am Am 
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Giving up on your hometown
G G 
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Am Am 
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Giving up on your hometown

Verse 6
C C 
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Every kid that's left just kept going
And every debt we didn't pay
D D 
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We just keep owing
G G 
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Never visit your daddy's grave
D D 
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Am Am 
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But we go by  the house
G G 
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He'd be working on a car in the driveway
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If he was with us now
C C 
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And that porch swing you built
for your mama
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G G 
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Is all but gone
C C 
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I guess even when you stay right here
Em Em 
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Sometimes you can't
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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D D 
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go       home

Verse 7

Giving up on your hometown

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