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Rochester chords by 
Mat Kearney
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Intro 1
G
D
G
D
A
D
G
D
G
A
D
Verse 1
D
I was born in Rochester
G
D
To a bookmaking man
Had a fake cigar shops
A
With the games on in the back
D
See them coming and going
G
D
Let them ride on thoroughbreds
G
Police chief and Tompaw wonder
A
D
ing what was the spread
Carried rich men's bag
through the brow
G
Trying to chase down a little white ball
D
I learned that any soft place
A
wasn't good for me at all
D
Daddy come home fired up look
G
ing for some sort of release
D
G
A
He beat the hell out of Timmy,
D
G
Timmy beat the hell out of me
Verse 2
I would hop the fence out to
D
this government fields
G
Run 'til there was nothing
D
G
more to feel
Lying there watching planes
just disappear
A
Knowing one day I'm gonna
fly on out of here
D
Verse 3
G
D
Well that same police chief came
G
D
knockin' my first freshman day
Put my daddy in handcuffs and
A
put his picture on the front page
D
G
To everyone of his suits and all my dignity
D
Walk the halls around the court
A
waiting for any punk to set me free
D
Verse 4
G
I would hop the fence out to
D
this government fields
G
Run 'til there was nothing
D
G
more to feel
Lying there watching planes
D
just disappear
A
Knowing one day I'm gonna
D
fly on out of here
Verse 5
D
Well I got that call to Vietnam just
G
like everyone else I knew
D
So scared of the hand grenades threw
A
them farther than any other troop
D
I came home like an iron fist and
G
Timmy tried to take my keys
D
Ripped open his front pocket that was
A
D
G
the last time he touched me
Verse 6
Bm
Moved to an island out west
G
up to Breckenridge
Bm
G
Met a mermaid on a glass boat and she
A
Bm
promised me some kids
G
Bought a house in Oregon where
you could touch both of the walls
D
Had a son named Benjamin and I was so
A
D
G
D
G
D
G
scared of it all
D
G
D
A
D
Well Benjamin walked in the front room
G
where I was cutting up my hash
D
Looked into those deep blue eyes
A
wondering why I'd been so mad
G
D
Flushed a quarter pound down the drain
G
praying for the mercy to confess
D
Trying to rip the boy from Rochester
A
D
right out of my chest
Verse 7
G
We're gonna walk right out
D
into these heavenly fields
G
D
Run like there was no more time to steal
G
D
G
My three boys in the grace of god I feel
D
A
Knowing one day you're gonna
D
take me out of here
G
A
Knowing one day you're
gonna take me out of here
D
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