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Home Town chords by Joe Jackson

  • D

  • A

  • Bm

    2
  • F#m

    2
  • G

  • Asus4

  • E

Intro 1
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Of all the stupid
Verse 1
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things I could have thought
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This was the worst
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I started to believe
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That I was born at seventeen
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Verse 2
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And all the stupid things
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The letters and the broken verse
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Stayed hidden at the bot
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tom of the drawer
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Asus4
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They'd always been
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And now I plough
Verse 3
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through piles
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Of bills, receipts and credit cards
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And tickets and the Daily
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News
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And sometimes I just . . .
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want to go back to my
Verse 4
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home town
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Though I know it'll never be the same
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Back to my home town
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'Cause it's been so long
Verse 5
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And I'm wondering if it's still there
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We think we're pretty smart
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Us city slickers get around
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And when the going's rough
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We
Verse 6
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kill the pain and relocate
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We're never married
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Never faithful not to any town
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But we never leave the past behind
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We just ac
Verse 7
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cumulate
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So sometimes when
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the music stops
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I seem to hear a distant sound
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Of waves and seagulls
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Football crowds and church
Verse 8
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bells
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And I . . .
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want to go back to my home town
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Though I know it'll never be the same
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Back to my
Verse 9
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home town
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'Cause it's been so long
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And I'm wondering if it's
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still there
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Back to my home town
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Though I
Verse 10
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know it'll never be the same
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Back to my home town
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'Cause it's been so long
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And I'm wondering if it's still there
Outro 1
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