Owen Temple - Downtown guitar chord

Downtown

Owen Temple

D G

Downtown’s all closed down

A

They’ve boarded up the windows

G D

Just like an old ghost town

D

The storefronts are empty

G

There’s noone around

A D

Downtown’s all closed down

A G D

A small town in Texas by the courthouse in the square

A G D

The middle of the afternoon and there’s nobody there

G

Well I shook my head and wondered

D

Where all the businesses had gone

A

There used to be everything that you’d ever need now

G

Just the bank’s still

D

Holdin’ on

Chorus

The old drugstore is vacant

And the café’s locked it doors

The movie marquis is falling down

There’s no more hardware stores

So I sat down on a bench

I watched a car go driving by

I wondered what had killed downtown

And how the people could let it die

Chorus

The railroad brought the people here

Now the interstate draws them away

It moved the steady business east

And left these old buildings behind to stay

But some folks in town remember

A time not too long ago

When a film called Casablanca played

At the town square picture show

Chorus