Key: E major
Verse 1
B
E
B
E
I was
B
raised in a canyon
E
By the country music station
B
E
In a richland deserrt dust bowl
B
And the radio towers would
E
scrape the low clouds
B
E
And sway when the wind would blow
B
The mu sic in the kitchen
E
Seemed to come from out of nowhere
B
F#
But me, I'd want to know
E
I'd look up every morning
G#m
And lay there every night
F#
G#m
Wondrin' where the songs would go
F#
Wondrin' where the songs
B
would go
E
B
E
Verse 2
B
Out behind the wreckin' yard
E
The Rock Island Station
B
Rumbled with the trains rollin'
E
in
B
And the stockyards would rattle
E
With the thunder of the cattle
B
E
And they would rumble away again
B
Like a big iron rhino char
E
gin' down the track
B
F#
I'd watch em disappear and then
E
The brakemen and the hobos
G#m
Would leave me there at sundown
F#
G#m
Wondering where it all would en d
F#
Won dering where it all
would end
B
E
B
Verse 3
E
C#m
That place you keep in
B
side your heart
C#m
B
Where only you can go
C#m
B
Is like a shelter from this world
G#m
E
F#
That only you can know
B
Only you can know
E
B
E
Verse 4
B
Down through the canyon
E
Rolled a winding river
B
A cross between a trickle
E
and a stream
B
I floated wooden boats
E
in the long afternoons
B
E
Till night, an eternity it seemed
B
I dreamed I saw the angels
E
coming for my brother
B
F#
And I begged them not to go
E
I'd wake up in the moonlight
G#m
With the tears still in my eyes
F#
Won dering where
G#m
the dreams did go
F#
Won dering where the dreams did go
B
E
B
Verse 5
E
B
I left behind that canyon
E
By the country music station
Bm
B
E
Called K - something - so - and- so
B
And the radio towers still
E
scrape the low clouds
B
E
And sway when the winds do blow
B
I traded all my wishes for a
E
cloud of blowin' sand
B
F#
In a rich land desert dust bowl
E
Holed up in a hotel with a
G#m
suitcase full of dreams
F#
G#m
Hangin' on to save my soul
F#
B
Hangin' on to save my soul
E
B
Verse 6
E
C#m
B
That place you keep inside your heart
C#m
B
That only you can go
C#m
B
Is like a shelter from this world
G#m
E
F#
That only you can know
B
E
B
Only you can
E
know
Outro 1
B
E
B
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