Our Town

	  		
Intro: G A D 


D                G 
And you know the sun's settin' fast, 
 D                           A 
just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. 
 D             G 
Go on now and kiss her goodbye, 
  D                          A 
hold on to your lover, your heart's bound to die. 


D             G              D             A 
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. 
D                 G                     D           A 
Can't you see the sun settin' down on our town, on our town, 
    D     G D A   D 
tonight. 



D                         G 
Up the street beside the red neon light, 
      D                         A 
Is  where I met my baby on one hot summer night. 
 D                       G 
She was the tender and I ordered a beer, 
     D                        A 
It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here. 


D                  G 
Don't you know the sun's settin' fast, 
 D                          A 
just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. 
 D             G 
Go on now and kiss it goodbye, 
  D                     A 
hold on to your lover, heart's bound to die. 


D             G              D             A 
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. 
D                 G                     D            A 
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town, 
    D     G D A  D G D A D 
tonight. 



     D                            G 
It's here I had my children and I had my first kiss, 
    D                             A 
strolled down Main Street in the cold morning mist. 
     D                G 
Over there is where I bought my first car, 
  D                      A 
turned over once but it didn't go far. 




 D             G 
I can see the sun settin' fast, 
 D                           A 
just like they say, nothing good ever lasts, 
 D             G 
go on now and kiss it goodbye, 
 D                            A 
hold on to your lover, your heart's bound to die. 


D             G              D             A 
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. 
D                 G                    D            A 
Can't you see the sun settin' down on our town, on our town, 
    D     G D A  D 
tonight. 


  D                      G 
I buried my Mother and I buried my Pa. 
     D                                A 
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall. 
  D                   G 
I bring them flowers about every day, 
  D                      A 
I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say. 


   D                    G 
If they could see  the sun settin' fast, 
 D                           A 
just like they say, nothing good ever lasts, 
 D             G 
go on now and kiss it goodbye, 
 D                           A 
hold on to your lover, your heart's bound to die. 


D             G              D             A 
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town. 
D                 G                     D            A 
Can't you see the sun  settin' down on our town, on our town, 
    D     G D A  D 
tonight. 


D                                    G 
Now I sit on the porch and watch the mosquitos fly. 
  D                        A 
Can't see too well, I got tears in my eyes. 
  D                    G 
Leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go. 
  D                                A 
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul. 


 D             G 
I can see the sun settin' fast, 
 D                            A 
just like they said, nothing good ever lasts, 
 D             G 
go on I gotta kiss you goodbye, 
     D                           A 
But hold on to your lover, your heart's bound to die. 


D             G              D           A 
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town. 
D                 G                   D           A 
Can't you see the sun settin' down on my town, on my town, 
    D     G D A  D 
tonight. 

D                 G                   D            A 
Can't you see the sun settin' down on our town, on our town, 
    D     G D A  D 
tonight. 

FADE OUT