When The City Comes chords by Chuck E. Costa

SimplifiedG · Em · D · Bm

GuitarPianoUkulele

Intro 1

Verse 1
G 
Em 
East Coast, Long Island Sound
G 
The damsel and the dragonfly
Em 
in the salt marsh make their rounds,
G 
egret on the ground.
When we moved back,
Em 
I thought we'd stay only a year
G 
The roots of your family
Em 
in the salt and the air
D 
Things are changing here
G 
Em 
There are farms and farmhouses,
winding stone walls
D 
G 
They sit like vestigial organs
Em 
inside a body that's evolved
D 
The body has evolved
G 
Black and white
Captured your grandmother's face
Black and white
Bm 
G 
Lost their hope on this place
Em 
D 
When the city comes knocking
G 
and the country packs his
Em 
D 
G 
suitcase
Another local farm
Em 
gives way to a convenience store
G 
What used to be convenient,
Em 
is not convenient anymore
D 
The city's knocking,
it's knocking on our country door
G 
All the old churches,
Em 
D 
that we never go inside
G 
We stand on the stones of revolution
Em 
We stand on the order
D 
of an older time
We stand on the water of a rising tide
G 
Black and white
captured your grandmother's face
black and white
lost their home on this place
Em 
D 
city comes knocking
G 
the country packs a  suitcase
D 
Em 
G 
Em 
D 
G 
The East Coast of Long Island sound
D 
G 
The damsel and the dragonfly
Em 
G 
in a salt marsh make their rounds,
D 
G 
D 
the e  -grip makes no sound.
G 