Hometown

Intro 
N.C. 
So I'm playin' the drums, right? Okay 


D                 G                            Em 
Davie died in the summertime in a hotboxed car 
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With a seatbelt 'round his neck and a needle in his arm 
     D                G                             Em 
We'd smoke out in the parkin' lot behind convenient shops 
           D                  G                                Em 
A bought a couple of grams of weed off him, but so did all the cops 
               D               G                                Em 
Back then, the kids from other county, we would walk out in the heat 
          D                     G                             Em 
'Long the train tracks with our paper bags, and gravel in our feet 
       D                    G                               Em 
In our heads, we picked the husband from the hundred men we knew 
               D           G                                            Em 
But I kissed a poster of a pop star and checked my breasts in cas they grew 


              D              G                       Em 
Ther ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown 
D                G                             Em 
Somewhere in the clouds, Davie's runnin' for a touchdown 
    D                     G                                          Em 
The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field 
         D            G                             Em 
And he's evergreen as seventeen for the last eleven years 


D    G    Em 
 Ooh-ooh, ah 
D   G    Em 
Ooh-ooh, ah 



      D               G                         Em 
No, I never felt like anyone, I was a paradoxul lie 
         D                G                                    Em 
I didn't think that I was special, but I was too afraid to die 
         D              G                                   Em 
Like the others from my high school, all those sad suburban ghosts 
             D               G                                 Em 
Trapped in a cross next to a highway, while the rest of us get old 



              D              G                       A 
There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown 
D                G                             Em 
Somewhere in the clouds, Davie's runnin' for a touchdown 
    D             G                                                  A 
The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field 
         D            G                             Em 
And he's evergreen as seventeen for the last eleven years 


D   G    Em 
Ooh-ooh, ah 
D    G    Em 
 Ooh-ooh, ah 


     D                   G                     Em 
The American dream means stayin' young forever 
        D              G                                   Em 
And the picture in our pamphlet gettin' yellow from the weather 
    D                     G                                     Em 
And years will pass since science class and I might forget your name 
             D                     G                                               Em 
But when the crow's feet come, the kingdom come, well, you'll always look the same 


              D              G                       A 
There ain't a reason on this earth I'd go back to my hometown 
D                G                             Em 
Somewhere in the clouds, Davie's runnin' for a touchdown 
    D             G                                                  A 
The crowd appears and his mother cheers, she's wavin' from the field 
         D            G                             Em 
And he's evergreen as seventeen for the last eleven years 


D    G                     Em 
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen) 
D    G                     Em 
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen) 
D    G                     A 
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen) 
D    G                     Em 
 Ooh-ooh, ah (Evergreen as seventeen) 


Outro 
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