Back 40 Back chords by Luke Combs

• Key: G#m
• Capo on 4th

🎸 Intro:

Em D
Em D C
Em D C
Wo o o




🎸 Verse 1:
    Em      D     C       Em            D
For sale by owner sign on Highway fifty-nine
         Em     D        C              Em  D
A signal of the times, a turning of the page
      Em         D       C              Em          D
There used to be nothing here, but that nothing disappeared
    D                   Em        D           C                 Em    D
The pond, the barn, the farm, the fields have long since been replaced
C                          Am                  Em
Asphalt parking where that ten pew Pentecostal stood
C                            Am                 Em
Fast food, four lanes, and a subdivided neighborhood

🎸 Chorus:
G                                  Em
The walls of the world are closin’ in
                              C
The spreadin’ city spreads us thin
              G                Am               Em   D
Till we can't seem to make our ends meet in the black
G                                    Em
I never would've thought it wouldn't last
                              C
A way of life that time moved past
       G                Am               Em    G
What I wouldn't give to have   the back forty back


🎸 Instrumental:
Em D
Em D C
Em D C


🎸 Verse 2:
Em          D      C   Em                     D
Maybe I’m a sucker for knowing who lives next door
            Em               C                  Em  D
A view from my back porch, a pinch of peace and quiet
            Em       D       C          Em             D
I can’t get back the used to be’s, so I hang on to the memories
                           Em             C                       Em    D
Of when I could still look up and see the stars not street lights shining


🎸 Chorus:
G                                  Em
The walls of the world are closin’ in
                              C
The spreadin’ city spreads us thin
              G                Am               Em   D
Till we can't seem to make our ends meet in the black
G                                    Em
I never would've thought it wouldn't last
                              C
A way of life that time moved past
       G                Am               Em    G
What I wouldn't give to have   the back forty back


🎸 Post-Chorus:
G                                Em
Now
I get that progress has its place
                          C
And no regard for what it takes
              G                  Am              Em   D
Wish it would slow its pace, and cut us all some slack
G                                Em
‘Cause it’s all changing way too fast
                              C
A way of life that time moved past
       G                Am               Em    G
What I wouldn't give to have   the back forty back


🎸 Outro:
D  C
Em D C
Em D C