The Shadows – My Home Town (Guitar)

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G         Em  
My home town

    C             Am
She big and she’s brown

  D                  G
She reaches to the sky above

      C                             Am
An every where you look she’s all around you

G        Em
My back yard

C             Am
Is dirty an hard

D                        G
It never seen a flower grown

     C                    Am
Since I can testify its no garden 

G
one of these days

G      C         G           C               G
Am gona pack my bags an take a train to some big city

G      C         G           C               G
Where the lights are bright an I now all the girls a pretty

G        Em  
My home folk 

    C           Am
Were raised in the smoke

D                           G
Of firy factory chimney stacks that gave you work

     C                D
But in return they choked you, 

G
choked youuuuuuuuuuuuuu
U (HANK PLAY INSTRUMENTAL)
G       Em  
When a wakeup

    C          Am
A wake up in the morning

D                               G
Work all the day till the sun goes down

     C                    Am
Gota save up all the money am earning

     C                    Am
Gota have enough to kiss this town
U (HANK PLAY INSTRUMENTAL)
G                     Em
Borrowing books from the public library

    C                       Am
Teaching myself about the world outside

D                    G
Pictures of sunny places in fife

C          Am
Be goodbye town 
Goodbye Em D Em Am taken A riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide
G                         Em
My mother started crying at the station

    C                           Am
Asked me if I wouldn’t change my mind

D                        G
Am afraid the city light were going blind

D                              Am
The whistle blows and terminates my journey

G                        Am
Go reality is right on time

D                         G
The factory gate closed behind meeeeee

G
One of theses days

G      C         G           C               G
Am gona pack my bags an take a train to some big city

G      C         G           C               G
Where the lights are bright an I now all the girls a pretty

G
One of these days