Chords for Rocketown--Michael W. Smith

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The Friday night has been, and in the city heat, a way to party's been, along the [Eb] soda street.
It's a [Bb] kimchi, [F] taste to [C] be, [G] what's Rock-A-Down. _ _ _
The dreams are too short, inside the crowded bar, the [D] girls will make the run, [G] and on the
[Eb] boulevard, _ [Bb] have a [F] place to live, the [C] way's a [G] Rock-A-Down.
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Hang [F] around by the street light, [Eb] in the [G] heart of the nightlife, _ [C] became _ [G] _ _
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a certain man, a
stranger to the crowd, who didn't understand, what he was [Eb] all about.
He [Bb] walked a different [F] place, [C] around a [G] place, in Rock-A-Down. _ _ _
We made a pool of him, the keys to win his feet, but then they knocked him down, he turned
the [Eb] other cheek, and [Bb] only [F] I could find the life [C] I sought, [G] in Rock-A-Down.
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Hang [F] around by the [Eb] street light, in the [D] heart of the [Ebm] nightlife, what [Eb] was his mission?
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[Gm] _ [Eb] [Cm] What was his [Eb] hard [Bb] life?
[F] All we [Ebm] know [Eb] _ we're missing, [Gb] he's the [C] bad [Gm] [D] oldie.
What [C] was his [Eb] secret?
[Bb] [F] Could I [Ebm] [Gb] know it?
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_ [G] _ Some didn't like him, some laughed and turned away from me and loved him, all that he had
to [Eb] say, he had [Bb] a piece [F] of mind, a cool [C] little bud, [G] in Rock-A-Down. _ _
_ [Gm] _ When they reached [Dm] down inside [Cm] me, [Gm] I could feel the emptiness.
[Bb] What [Eb] was his [Ebm] mission?
Where was [C] he [Gm] going?
[Eb] Why [Cm] was it my [Eb] life, [Bb] all [Ebm] we know we're missing, [Eb] _ [Ebm] he's [D] the [C] bad [Gm] oldie.
[Eb] What [Cm] was his [Gm] secret?
[F] Could I [Gb] know it? _ _
[G] Yeah, _ he _
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said it's in the heart, a change comes to be, now we had done his part, the
[D] choice was [Eb] up to me.
As [Gm] we were [F] standing there, he [C] said a [G] prayer for Rock-A-Down.
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As [Gm] we were [F] standing there, he [C] said a [G] prayer for Rock-A-Down.
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He [Bb] walked off [F] silently, [C] prayed for me.
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Rock-A-Down.
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Rock-A-Down.
[C] _ [G] Yeah, yeah.
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Rock-A-Down.
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He prayed for me down in [C] Rock-A-Down.
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