Chords for Your State's Name Here - Lou & Peter Berryman

Well, we _ play all around the country.
We have only ever written songs about Wisconsin, really.
And so we would like to write songs about Ohio and places
like _ _ _ yours that we play in.
But instead of doing that, we decided, though,
we can just cut to the chase and do one generic state song.
I just did it called Your State's Name [F] Here.
Your State's Name Here.
Sometimes _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] when _ [G] _
[A] _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _ the grass [F] is blown [C] by the breeze,
[F] there's a faraway [C] look in the [G] leaves of the trees.
_ [C] A memory _ returns, [F] heart _ [Am] breakingly clear,
[F] of a place [C] I call home.
Your [G] [C] State's Name Here. _
_ _ [Am] _ [C] Now the sky could be deeper.
_ [F] Now water's [C] so clear, _ [F] as back [C] in the middle of the river.
[Em] Your State's Name [Am] Here.
[Bm] _ [C] I'm going to go back, _ [F] although I
[C] _ _ [F] didn't know [C] the place [G] yet.
Your State's Name [C] Again. _
_ _ [G] _ Oh.
Your State's Name Here.
[C] Oh.
Again.
What a state.
[G] I have not been bested.
A reasonable [C] date.
Where the asphalt grows soft in [F] July of [C] each [Em] year.
[F] In the warm [C] summer _ mornings [G] of your [C] state's name. _ _
_ [G] _ _ [C] My grandpa would [E] come [F] and turn [C] on the gate
[F] and go to [C] sleep drinking your local [G] beer's name. _ _ _
[C] While grandma would sing in [F] the garden.
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[C] The names of _ [Bm] indigenous [C] _
folks.
[G] _ The [C] _ songs that she [Am] sang [F] were somewhat [C]
obscure.
_ [F] She learned [C] from the local _ townspeople I'm sure.
The language they [E] use [F] is not very [C] clear.
[F] My place of [C] _
_ _ colloquialism right here. _
_ _ [Am] _ [G] Your State's Name Here.
Oh.
Again.
What [C] a state.
[G] I have not been _ [Bm] bested.
A reasonable [C] date.
Where the asphalt grows soft in [F] July [C] of each year.
[F] In the warm summer [C] _
[G] mornings of your state's [C] name.
Here. _ _
[G] _ _ [C] I'd love to wake up where.
[F] The state [D] songbird [F] sings.
In the [C] _ _ manufacture of the names of [G] some of the
folks [C] right there on the bumper.
[F] A sticker [C] so clear.
[F] And I'm [C] a heart-to-heart.
[B] Your State's [C] Name Here. _ _
_ [Am] _ [G] _ [C] The spirit _ [E] soft.
It's a [F] song to [C] my ear.
[F] Your State's [C] Name Here.
_ Your State's [G] Name Here.
[C] It's there I was born.
[F] And it's there I'll grow [D] [C] old.
[F] By the rivers [C] of blue.
[G] And the arches [C] of gold. _
_ [G] _ Your State's Name Here.
_ Again.
What [C] a state.
[G] I have not been _ bested.
A _ [C] reasonable date.
Where the asphalt grows soft [F] in July [C] of each year.
[F] In the [C] warm summer mornings [G] of your state's [C] name.
Here.
[F] In the warm [C] summer mornings of [G] your state's [C] name.
Here. _ _ _ _
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