Tift Merritt - Laid A Highway guitar chord

Song: Laid a Highway

Artist: Tift Merrit

Album: Tambourine

Tabbed By: NashvilleChick (Lindsay D.)

Intro: G D C

Verse 1:

G

This was a town took care of it's own

D

That's what me and my children have known

C

I worked the mill the way my parents did

G

I remember this town when I was a kid

Bmi

Sitting through the movies twice

C

Open windows late at night

G

Slipping out in the summer heat

D

To meet John Miller in the middle of the street

Chorus:

C

They laid a highway a few years back

G

Next town over by the railroad track

D

Some nights, I'm glad it passed us by

C G D C

Some nights, I sit and watch my hometown die

Verse 2:

G

I'm fifty-five and when the mill burned down

D

I wasn't much past a pretty young gal

C

Boss lit a match in the oily night

G

Cops never had enough to set it right

Bmi

So while the company traded with our lives

C

We were busy watching that slow moon rise

G

Dancing on the high grass ridge

D

Making love down by the Cedar County Bridge

Repeat Chorus

Instrumental: G D C G D C-

Verse 3:

G

They never came to tear that old place down

D

They roped it off, but you can walk around

C

See the rust on the painted doors

G

Watch the rain fall through the burned out floors

Bmi

This was a town took care of it's own

C

This was a town doing fine all alone

G

The mill got out a quarter to five

D

You could eat supper with any family you liked

Repeat Chorus

Outro: G D C G D C G