John Gorka – Holed Up Mason City (Guitar)

Capo 5

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INTRO: C F G C Am F G C I'm holed up in Mason City

F               G        C
Waiting for the roads to clear

Second day of a blizzard

    Am                G
And winter isn't even here

            F
I'm heading back on I-35

   Am                               C
At this point, I just wanna make it home alive

I'm holed up in Mason City

    G                      C
The weather isn't pretty tonight

I'm holed up in Mason City

F              G       C
Waiting for my luck to change

Thought I'd be home already

       Am                  G
But my plans are being rearranged 

           F
First day, snow flew down from the sky

         Am                           C
Now it's crossing the fields and it's drifting high

Sudden ice upon the highway

    G                 C
Car is blowing sideways and I

             Am
Believe I'll seek some shelter

F            G           C
Faces Helter Skelter and wide

        Am
I moved over to the rumble step

    G                        F
I'm driving with my flashers on

      Am
Every tenth of a mile

    G                       F    G
I'm slipping ever closer to gone

         Am      G         F     G
Ice-blue highway, blue sky byway 

         Am      G        F        G
Ice-blue highway, blowing sideways

INSTRUMENTAL: C F G C Am G

       C                           F                 G   C
At the Big Bopper diner, there's a bunch of stranded refugees 

                         Am                    G
And nobody's talking, or looking very eager to please 

     F
In a booth I saw Buddy Holly's ghost 

Am                     C
Writing to the girl he loved the most

I'm holed up in Mason City

    G                    C
The future isn't ready tonight 

           Am
I'm holing up in Mason City

    F            G       C
The future isn't ready tonight

OUTRO: F G C Am F G C G C