Paradise Aint Home chords by Vaughn

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Bm
G
D
Dm
Em
F#
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E

Intro 1
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Bm 
G 
 (A major)  (B minor)  (G major) 
A 
Bm 
G 
 (A major)  (B minor)  (G major) 
A 
D 
A 
 (A major)  (D major)  (A major) 
D 
A 
Josie  (D major) sits by  (A major) the fire

Verse 1
escape window and she
D 
A 
 (D major) Looks out on her  (A major) American dream
D 
A 
 (D major) Weekend boys are work (A major) ing
on their cars and the
D 
A 
Street (D major) s are smelling of gas (A major) oline
D 
A 
Josie tries  (D major)  (A major) to write her momma
letters and she
Thinks about her man back home
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A 
D 
A 
 (D major) Send (A major) s  some  (D major) money  (A major) back when
she can manage and she
D 
 (D major) Calls once a month from
Dm 
A 
a neigh (D minor) bors phone  (A major) 

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Verse 2

And she got

Pretty empty pockets, yeah

And she got

Pretty, empty hands

And she thinks of all the things

She wants to say to him

And she hopes he understands

Verse 3
A 
 (A major) 
Bm 
If this is paradise  (B minor) 
G 
A 
Then  (G major) paradise aint home  (A major) 
Bm 
If I have to walk  (B minor) away
G 
A 
Then I'll walk  (G major) away alone  (A major) 
Bm 
No use living in paradise  (B minor) 
G 
When the light (G major) s are on and
D 
 (D major) paradise aint home

Interlude 1

Josie watches the kid

Verse 4
A 
 (A major) s  play
in the hydrant and she
Smells the cooking from
the floors below
D 
A 
Traffic  (D major) never (A major) ,
ever stops talking and there aint
Nothing to do, no place to go
And she got
Em 
A 
A  (E minor) black and white t.v.  (A major) don't work
Em 
And she got  (E minor) 
A 
Laundry on the line  (A major) 
F# 
And this three  (F sharp major) room space
Bm 
still feels  (B minor) out of place
B 
F# 
 (B major) Like she's  (F sharp major) sleepwalking all the time
Bm 
 (B minor) 

Verse 5
A 
 (A major) 
Bm 
If this is paradise  (B minor) 
G 
A 
Then  (G major) paradise aint home  (A major) 
Bm 
If I have to walk  (B minor) away
G 
A 
Then I'll walk  (G major) away alone  (A major) 
Bm 
No use living in paradise  (B minor) 
G 
D 
Em 
G 
When the light (G major) s are on and  (D major) paradise aint home  (E minor)  (G major) 

Interlude 2
D 
A 
G 
Em 
 (D major)  (A major)  (G major)  (E minor) 
G 
D 
E 
 (G major)  (D major)  (E major) 
A 
Bm 
G 
A 
 (A major)  (B minor)  (G major)  (A major) 
Bm 
G 
A 
 (B minor)  (G major)  (A major) 
D 
 (D major) Josie hears them fight

Verse 6
A 
 (A major) ing
on the corner
D 
A 
 (D major) They've been drinking  (A major) since friday,
noon
3 a.m. and it's too hot for sleeping
Dm 
A 
Sunday morning is coming  (D minor) soon  (A major) 

Verse 7
Em 
And she got  (E minor) 
A 
A hard earned case of home (A major) sick, yeah
And she got
Em 
A 
 (E minor) A bargain with the lord  (A major) 
F# 
And she hopes  (F sharp major) she'll be forgiven
B 
For  (B major) giving up
F# 
But she  (F sharp major) knows she can't
hold on much more
B 
Bm 
 (B major)  (B minor) 

Verse 8
A 
 (A major) 
Bm 
If this is paradise  (B minor) 
G 
A 
Then  (G major) paradise aint home  (A major) 
Bm 
If I have to walk  (B minor) away
G 
A 
Then I'll walk  (G major) away alone  (A major) 
Bm 
It's hard to cross the river  (B minor) wide
G 
A 
When you're sinking  (G major) like a stone  (A major) 
Bm 
If this is para (B minor) dise
G 
D 
A 
Then  (G major) paradise  (D major)  (A major) 
G 
 (G major) 
D 
A 
G 
D 
A 
Em 
Para (D major)  (A major)  (G major)  (D major)  (A major)  (E minor) 
G 
A 
G 
D 
A 
 (G major) dis (A major)  (G major)  (D major)  (A major) 
G 
D 
A 
Em 
G 
 (G major) e  (D major)  (A major) aint  (E minor)  (G major) 
A 
 (A major) home