My Hometown chords by Neil Young
Verse 1
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I was eight years old and running
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with a dime in my hand
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Into the bus stop to pick up
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a paper for my old man
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I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick
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and steer as we drove through town
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He'd tousle my hair and say son,
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take a good look around, this is your hometown
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Your ho metown
This is your hometown
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This is your hometown
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Verse 2
In '65 tension was running
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high at my high school
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There was lots of fights between
blacks and whites
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There was nothing you could do
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Two cars at a light on a Saturday night,
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in the back seat there was a gun
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Words were passed in a shotgun blast
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And troubled times had
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come to my hometown
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My hometown
My hometown
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My hometown
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Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Now Main Street's whitewashed
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windows and vacant stores
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Seems like there ain't nobody want
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s to come down here no more
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They're closing down the textile mill
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across the railroad tracks
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Foreman says these jobs are going
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boys and they ain't coming back
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To your hometown
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Your hometown
Your hometown
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Your hometown
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Verse 4
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Last night me and Kate, we laid in bed
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Talking about getting out
Packing up our bags and
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maybe heading south
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I'm thirty- five, we got a boy,
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of our own now
Last night,
I sat him up behind the wheel
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And said, "son,
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take a good look around
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This is your hometown"
Outro 1
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My Hometown
Neil Young
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