Chords for Mark Perry - This Town

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[F#m] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] Well, I got to tell you [F#m] that_
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[F#] Uncle Ernie, it's not really my Uncle Ernie, so I never had an Uncle Ernie, [F#m] but I_
And, but I do know this_
Your brother named Chip?
Pretty sure I do know this.
I have to build a good ink for both of these, but it's pretty sure that Ernie had_
_ He's, uh, the first guy and his wife, the first couple married in his period.
That's right, I think that might be true.
February 1914!
Woo!
Woo! _ _ _
_ _ You know that, that's February 1914, Ernie Mann was buried in this church, yeah!
Woo!
_ He never was my Uncle, but he, uh, doodled on me for about some minutes and told me lots of stuff about his family.
_ _ Yeah, but I didn't know Ernie. _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[F#m] Now my Uncle Ernie, [D] he moved here from [A] Winnipeg 70 years ago.
Oh!
He said [F#m] sometimes you gotta [D] take a chance in life, and you never [A] know.
For [F#m] over there two sisters [D] from Toronto said [A] everything's gonna be just fine.
[F#m] That's where they are [D] headed west, on the branch [A] called the railroad line.
And for [E] these who rode a winding [D] track, up and down,
filled [E] with the dark or scared of the mud or dangerous [D] things,
this [B] your town now, [A] this town, this town, this _ _ _ _ town,
_ _ [F#m] this town,
[D] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [F#m] From the open ditches and the [A] wooden sidewalks of the first big [F#] hotel,
[F#m] another stranger off [D] the train, another snow over the [F#m] town,
another railroad [D] station at the end of [A] the street,
[F#m] every town needed an [D] important place.
_ [A] _ He [E] said, he's two boys off the [D] bike.
He all killer.
And [E] all you think is safe.
He was [F#] hurt back home now.
[A] This town is built on the backs of the people who live here.
This town is built on the backs of the people who died [F#m] here.
This town [A] will never stay.
This town will be gone.
_ _ [F#m] There's no talk [D] on the living of timber [E] around here anymore.
[F#m] It's hard to find [D] a good man to do the job.
_ _ [A] But [F#m] the right _ [D] _ _
[A] people stayed in the [F#m] hard times.
[D] But they could not [A] be saved.
_ [E] Now, still, poor Murray, though, [D] is buried on the hill.
[E] There's just so many places to have it.
You can only have a will [A] now.
This town is built on the [E] backs of the people who live here.
[A] This town is built on the backs of the people [F#m] who died here.
This town will never [A] stay.
This town will be gone.
This town is built on the backs of the people who live here.
This town is built on the backs of the people who [F#m] died here.
This town [D] will never stay.
[E] This town will be [A] gone.
This town is built on the backs [B] of the people who _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] live here.
This town is built on the backs of the people who died here.
This town is built on the backs of the people who died here. _ _ _ _
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