Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
Dm
Eb
Bb
There's
a part of the country
Dm
Eb
The people move, the sidewalks shake
part of the country
Eb
Gm
awake and think about
How the generations past
F
Bb
dripping sea
Eb
Gm
Just to see what it's like
to trade its demons
Dm
Eb
For the restless ghost of Mr s. Ovey
mint from her front yard
Dm
Eb
To dress the Sunday pork
F
Bb
Sometimes Southern California
Cm
Bb
wants to be Western New York
It wants to have a family business
F
Bb
An d it wants to have a diner
Dm
Eb
F
Of a town they say has hit the skids
Dm
Eb
F
That will turn its parents into kids
Eb
F
With mousy brown hair who is
Cm
F
Bb
Making coffee in long un derwear
Eb
Gm
F
I'll meet you there an d it
F
Bb
Sometimes Southern California
wants to be
Cm
Bb
U .S. star, New York
Eb
F
greener and wetter
Dm
Eb
thinks that Atlanta integrated better
F
Bb
But I think that Southern California
Dm
Eb
has more pain than we can say
F
Gm
Bb
Csus4
F
a theme park planned
Dm
Eb
F
Designed to make you gasp and say oh
Dm
Eb
Was a booming mill town in its day
F
Gm
An d the old investors cough at this
F
Gm
and they promise it will make more dough
Dm
Eb
than Mickey Mouse in Northern France
F
Bb
and the planners got an opening day,
Dm
Eb
a town historian will post
F
Gm
and the waitresses look like waitresses
Cm
F
Bb
who want to leave for the west coast
on rainy weekends,
F
Gm
that have hundred -year -old plumbing
Dm
Eb
and a family you never had
F
Bb
and a Hudson River clean -up concert
Dm
Eb
and a bundle -bearing stork
F
Bb
and I hear they got a menu planned,
Eb
Cm
Bb
it's Trey, Western New York
Eb
Bb
Western New York you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsDm Eb Bb Gm Cm...
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