Mary Chapin Carpenter — Hero In Your Own Hometown

    	    	Вступление

From the album "A Place In The World" (1996)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/bWGHSwxRMlI
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/5RlEeShcxfKf6vACjgBe65?si=2fdcda68dcf84a97


[Intro]
| F      | G  Am  | F      | G   C  |
| F      | G  Am  | F      | G   C  |


[Verse 1]
        F                    C/E
We were born during the boom times
       G                      C
Played house down in the bomb shelter
F                           C/E
Suffered through the wonder years
    G                     C
And silence at the dinner hour
    Am                G                    F
But once upon a summertime, out behind the old garage
        Am            G                 F           G
We were buzzing on midnight, Luckys and Rolling Rock


[Chorus]
C                F             G   C   F   G
Thinking we were heroes in our own hometown
Am                F              G   C   F   G   C
Nothing less than heroes in that old hometown


[Verse 2]
     F                   C/E
Some married on a day in June
     G                     C
Some disappeared without a trace
    F                       C/E
And some of us are still at large
      G                      C
Still searching for a better place
    Am                G                      F
But once upon another time, it didn't matter what they said
       Am                  G                     F        G
Didn't matter if we fell behind, we'd still come out ahead


[Chorus]
      C              F              G   C   F   G
Cause we believed in heroes in that old hometown
     Am             F            G   C   F   G   C
Hey, you could be a hero in your own hometown


[Bridge]
        Am7
Now I'm long away and very far
     G                     C
From gazing at an evening sky
     Am7
From wishing on a shooting star
     G                           C
From thinking that a heart can't lie
     F
This world is gonna wear you thin
         Am7
Knot you up and spin you round
     F
This world will take it's aim, call you every name
D/A                 D
Trying to bring you down


[Guitar solo]
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| F      | G  Am  | F      | G   C  |


[Verse 3]
F                   C/E
Everything seems so clear
            G                           C
When you're looking back from such a distance
         F                   C/E
When the road not taken disappears
  G                      C
Into the path of least resistance
    Am          G          F
But once upon a time oh so long ago
     Am                   G        F             G
Underneath this same old sky every brand new road


[Chorus]
      C                 F             G   C   F                   G
Would know that we were heroes in our own hometown (heroes in our own hometown)
Am                F              G   C   F                    G
Nothing less than heroes in that old hometown (heroes in that old hometown)
C                F           G   C   F                   G
We still loved a hero in our own hometown (heroes in our own hometown)
     Am             F            G   C   Am7  G   C
Baby you could be a hero in your own hometown


[Outro]
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| F      | G  C   | Am7    | G   C  |
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