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