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