home town — текст песни (Jackson Joe)

From: phillip@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Phillip C. Saunders)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:39:34 EST
Subject: joe_jackson/home.town.crd

Joe Jackson, Home Town from Big World
transcribed by phillip@princeton.edu

D A Bm Fm G D A
Of all the stupid things I could have thought this was the worst
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I started to believe that I was born at seventeen
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And all the stupid things, the letters and the broken verse
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Stayed hidden at the bottom of the drawer, they`d always been
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And now I plough through files of bills receipts and credit cards
D A Bm Fm G A
and tickets and the daily news and sometimes I just wanna go back to my

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D Fm G A
Home Town, though I know it`ll never be the same
D Fm G
Back to my home town, `cause it`s been so long,
A Fm (???)
and I`m wondering if it`s still there.

We think we`re pretty smart, us city slickers get around
And when the goping`s rough we kill the pain and relocate
We`re never married, never faithful not to any town
But we never leave the past behind it just accumulates
So sometimes when the music stops I seem to hear a distant sound
Of waves and seagulls, football crowds and churchbells

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