Homecoming chords by Josh Ritter

Chords with lyrics

Intro: C majorC G+G FF (x2)

Verse 1
C majorC
  I feel a change in the weather,
              G+G
  I feel a change in me,
                FF
  The days are getting shorter  and the birds begin to leave,
C majorC
  Even me, yes, yes, y'all,
                G+G
  Who has been so long alone,
          FF
  I'm headed home,  Headed home

C majorC G+G FF

Verse 2
C majorC
  The nights are getting colder now,
               G+G
  The air is getting crisp,
                FF
  I first tasted the universe  on a night like this,
C majorC
  A augmentedA box of wine, an alibi,
                G+G
  and the hunger in her eyes,
                FF
  In a place where the tree of good and evil still resides,
C majorC     G+G    FF
  Still resides


    C majorC
  Homecoming,
    G+G          FF
  Homecoming, homecoming,

Verse 3
C majorC
  She said "show me what you got, babe,
                 G+G
  I'm not like other girls",

  Just give me your bad self
     FF
  And a place for us to make a stand and I can move the world
C majorC
  Lift the valley from the floor, honey,
             G+G
  Litle town into the sky,
                 FF
  They'll say that it's a miracle and you'll know damn well they're right,
C majorC    G+G           FF
  Damn well they're right

    C majorC
  Homecoming,
    G+G          FF
  Homecoming, homecoming,
    C majorC
  Homecoming,
    G+G          FF
  Homecoming, homecoming,

Verse 4
C majorC
  When the oracle spoke to me she was like a roadside song,
G+G                   FF
  Do unto others as you would have them do,

  Even if in turn they do you wrong,
C majorC
  This town right here's my everything,
                G+G
  Though I've been torn away,
               FF
  It has my heart, It has my heart,
                  C majorC
  Be still my heart, My heart will stay,
                      G+G  FF
  My heart will stay, My heart will stay,

C majorC G+G FF (x2)

Verse 5
  FF           G+G
  Get just a little bit higher,
            A minorAm
  Get a little tongue tied,
             FF
  Gonna try to find whatever ever ever made time,
  FF
  That kind of immemorial,
  G+G
  That time before the fall,
  A minorAm
  That time before the autumn
  FF
  Really turned the corner
  FF
  Drive east of Eden,
      G+G
  'Till we start to feel the west,
      A minorAm
  You were never far from nowhere,
       FF            A minorAm
  You could see it from the edge of town,
            G+G
  Honey, baby, wonder how it feel now,
    A minorAm                G+G
  Somehow I can't believe that it could feel like before, but,

Verse 6
C majorC
  The air's getting colder now,
A minorAm
  The nights are getting crisp,
G+G                  FF
  I first tasted the universe on a night like this,
C majorC
  An alibi, a box of wine,
      A minorAm
  And the hunger in your eyes,
G+G                       FF
  In a place where the tree of good and evil  still resides,


    C majorC
  Homecoming,
    G+G         FF
  Homecoming, homecoming, (Homecoming)
    C majorC
  Homecoming,
    G+G         FF
  Homecoming, homecoming, (Homecoming)
    C majorC
  Homecoming,
    G+G         FF
  Homecoming, homecoming, (Don't go away now)
    C majorC
  Homecoming, (Don't go away now)
    G+G           FF
  Homecoming, homecoming...
    C majorC
  Homecoming, (Don't go away now)
    G+G           FF
  Homecoming, homecoming...

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