Give Me Back My Hometown

[Intro]
B

[Verse]
B  
Damn I used to love this view,

sit here and drink a few
G#m                               
  Main street and the high school,
   E
lit up on Friday night
B  
Down there it's another touchdown,

Man this year’s team is stout
G#m                         
  I can hear em going crazy,
  E
and up here so am I


[Pre-chorus]
F#                              
  Thinkin about you sittin there
        E
sayin I hate this, I hate it
F#                                 
  If you couldn’t stand livin
          E          F#
here why’d you take it, take it?


[Chorus]
B    F#     G#m  E        B
Give me back my hometown
B             F#      B
Cause this is my hometown


[Verse]
B  
All the colors of my youth, the

red the green the hope the truth
G#m                            
  Are beating me black and blue
        E
cause your in every scene.
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My friends try to cheer me up,

we get together at the Pizza Hut
G#m                            
  I didn’t have the heart
       E
to tell em that was our place


[Pre-chorus]
F#                         
  These sleepy streetlights
           E
on every sidewalk, side street
F#                    E     
  Shed a light on everything
      F#
that used to be


[Chorus]
B    F#     G#m  E        B
Give me back my hometown
B             F#      B
Cause this is my hometown


[Interlude]
G#m                  E
yeeeeaaaaahhhh ohhh yeeeaaahhh
G#m                 E
yeeeaaaahhh ohhh yeeeeeaaahh


[Bridge]
G#m  
You can have my grandma’s

locket,

the knife outta my grandpa’s pocket
E  
My state champion jacket, I

don’t care you can have it
G#m  
Every vague memory. every

picture every broken dream
E  
Yeah everything, everything,

everything


[Chorus]
B    F#     G#m E         B
Give me back my hometown
B             F#      B
Cause this is my hometown


[Outro]
G#m                  E
yeeeeaaaaahhhh ohhh yeeeaaahhh
G#m                E
yeeeaaaahhh ohhh yeeeeeaaahh
G#m               E
eww ahhh oooooo ohhh yeeeeaaaahhhh
B
oooo ooooo ooooo
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Now oooo oooo
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ahh oooooo ooooo