Patty Griffin – Boston (Guitar)

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 I went back to Boston

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 Back to the city you were lost in

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 I went back to the place

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 Without your face in the stone

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 Walked around Harvard Square

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 The runaway kids are still hanging out there

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 And I took the red line

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 All the way across the River Charles

  C                   G
 Some things try and try

           D                   C
 But they never fly, and they never fly

      C                 G
 You reach up from the waves

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 And find that you're only waving goodbye

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 Went walking in Boston

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 Over a bridge I used to walk on

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 I was looking for my heart

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 That I'd flung into that sea of stone

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 Boston said, you need not apply

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 For your license to fly

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 Hey, young lady, don't look so surprised

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 You know you're not alone

  C                   G
 Some things try and try

           D                   C
 But they never fly, and they never fly

      C                 G
 You reach up from the waves

                       D    C          E    A    E    A
 And find that you're only waving goodbye

E                (A)
 It was Memorial Day

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 I went to where you lay

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 There were thousands of people

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 Just like you in a giant graveyard

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 You came all of that way

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 Looking for the sky, you got a slap in the face

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 You had a desperate need to be loved

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 You just got put in that place

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 You better know your place, boy

  C                   G
 Some things try and try

           D                   C
 But they never fly, and they never fly

      C                 G
 You reach up from the waves

                       D    C          E    A    E    A
 And find that you're only waving goodbye

  E    A
 Only waving

        E     A
 You're only waving

        E     A
 You're only waving

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 You're only waving goodbye