Giving Up On Your Hometown chords by Lori McKenna

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D

Intro 1

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

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

Verse 3
C 
The sunsets still look the way
D 
they always do
Dsus4 
C 
Over the backyard trees
D 
My grandma used to sit under
C 
in the afternoon
And you can't keep everything
D 
the way you want it
Am 
Feels like even the ghosts
C 
are getting out
Giving up on your homet
G 
own
Am 
C 
G 

Verse 4
Am 
G 
Every single sunday, 10AM
Am 
We were in  that pew
G 
I was married there and baptized there
Am 
And my kids were too
C 
My mother sang in the women's
G 
choir before she died
C 
And the day they sold that church
Even the statue of Mother
Em 
Dsus4 
D 
Mary cried

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

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