Big Volcano Small Town chords by Charlotte Cornfield

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Intermediate

D       F#m    Bm
D     G   D   A       D

D                           F#m
It's almost as if it was choreographed
   Bm                   G
The towel, the sushi, the way that you laughed
A                                   D
The things you said to woo me into bed
D                             F#m
The market's my office and yours is the street
       Bm                       G
And I'm wiping the juice stains off of my feet
          A                                    D
And your words just don't seem too concrete to me
D                               F#m
We stayed up all night making Jenga Inuksuks
Bm                G
Kissing slow and leafing through cookbooks
A                                               D
Opening the doors to see how the night looked
D                                F#m
On the festival grounds and at my place and yours
        Bm         A        G
Now I'm catching buses, sleeping on floors
A                       F#m                            D
And coming to cherish household chores when I'm home again
F#m                         G
And you turned out to be a letdown

D      Bm      A     G
Big volcano, small town
D      Bm     D    A    G   Gm
Big volcano, small town

D                               F#m
Well now I'm on the bus and it keeps getting faster
Bm                      G
And you think you're such a rasta
             A                  F#m                    D
But you don't know Mount Zion from Mount Shasta
D                             F#m
Oh please God, let me wake up in San Fran
Bm              A           G
Let us not derail, let us stick with the plan
             A                  Bm   D
I'm going to California just 'cause I can
F#m                         G
And you turned out to be a letdown

D      Bm    A    G
Big volcano, small town
D    Bm       A    G
Big volcano, small town

D                         F#m
Well up in Mill Valley over Redwood brush
   Bm              G
I see I don't matter much
A                                                       D
The wind is my weakness and you are my crutch
D                               F#m
Let these twisting trees be our knuckling fingers
    Bm                      G
Let these little birds be our favorite singers
    A                                                   D
Let these sparks of rage be our our firebringers
D                              F#m
Some find love in Berkeley, I find it in lies
     Bm                G
I'm disappointed but I'm not surprised
         A                                                      D
I'll be gone with the wind, you were Lord of the Flies
D                         F#m
Today Ocean Beach and tomorrow Vancouver
     Bm            A           G
My bank card's in Portland, my heart's in the sewer
     A                                                  D
But one thing's for sure I have never been truer
F#m                           G
And you turned out to be a letdown

D     Bm      A     G
Big volcano, small town
D      Bm     D   A  G
Big volcano, small town
D     Bm      A     G
Big volcano, small town
D      Bm     D   A  G
Big volcano, small town