Great Mid-West chords by
John Mellencamp

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Key: C major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Everything is slower
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here; everybody's got a union card
They get up on Sunday,
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go to church of their choice
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Come back home,
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cook out in the backyard
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And they call this the great midwest
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Where the cornfields row and flow
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They're all five years ahead
of their time
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Or twenty-five behind; I just don't know
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All the young men talk about
their four-wheel drives
drives
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And how much money they're
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gonna make on Friday night
And they like to brag about how
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they mistreat their girlfriends
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Hey, let's get drunk,
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party it up, start a fight
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And they call this the great midwest
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Sure make a hell of a car
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And the old hearts,
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they race their way though the night
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The upheaval of who they really are
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Growin' up under normal conditions,
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television and radio
That's just about all of this whole world
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That any of us get to see,
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get to know
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And they call this the
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great midwest
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Where you sacrifice body and soul
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And no  one really wants to get even
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Most of us find it hard enough just lettin' go
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Don't get me wrong, I ain't complaining
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I ain't braggin',
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nor do I mean to place blame
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That's just the way things are around here
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And there's a fu  ture car
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ryin' my name on it
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Sayin', hey man,
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you gonna stick around here? You better get on it
If you're gonna stick around here
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You better make yourself some real good friends
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Well, I wasn't born with a
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silver spoon in my mouth
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So I can't talk about the big-city life
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life
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But if you want to talk about bein' bored
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and runnin' away from yourself
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Hell, I talk to you all night
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And they call this the great midwest
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Where livin' is just gettin' by
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And people trade in their happiness
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For a smokestack,

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a big money deal in the sky

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