In A Small Town chords by Dee Mullins

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Verse 1
G 
 (G major) Every time we would walk
into a crowded room,
talk would start
and pretty soon all heads
D 
Am 
would turn our  (D major) way.  (A minor) 
D 
We  (D major) would just look at each other,
reassuring smile would
smother out the ugly things
G 
I knew that they would say  (G major) 
We had a blanket of love around us,
what they said would not confound us,
cause the joy we shared
C 
filled every night an (C major) d  day
I thought nothing could penetrate
G 
the  (G major) love that shielded us from hate
D 
But in our  (D major) small town,
G 
Eb 
it's the gossip for today  (G major)  (E flat major) 
Ab 
While  (A flat major) her divorce was pending,
we planned a new home at the bending
Of the river where we used
Eb 
to sit an (E flat major) d   dream
Cm 
We thought out there  (C minor) that
Eb 
 (E flat major) we  could find peace
And hope the gossip all would soon cease
He kept legal matters draggin' on,
Ab 
it  (A flat major) seemed
Then one night rain
made the highway slick
And I hit the bricks too quick, I was safe
Db 
And then crawled over where she  (D flat major) lay
I was cryin', halfway prayin'
Ab 
As I  (A flat major) heard what she was sayin'
Eb 
In our small  (E flat major) town
Ab 
E 
it was the gossip for today  (A flat major)  (E major) 
A 
Legally  (A major) he claimed the body
The funeral was close to me
E 
He wouldn't let my flowers through the  (E major) door
I was alone in my grieving,
in a stupor disbelieving
That she'd never hold and
A 
love me any more  (A major) 
Now and then I slip back all alone
to place some flowers at the stone
Tryin' not to see the words
D 
they've chiseled  (D major) there
Here lies the wife of Tommy Grace
A 
But  (A major) it's my love beneath that clay
E 
In our small  (E major) town,
A 
the gossip died today  (A major) 
E 
In our small  (E major) town,
the gossip died today
A 
 (A major) 