East Of Gary chords by Darrell Scott

Chords with lyrics

Standard Tuning

G+G        E minorEm       C majorC
I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
A minorAm             C/GC/G           E minorEm
With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind
G+G           E minorEm          C majorC
I watched Mom and Dad trying to clean their sorrow
A minorAm           C/GC/G     E minorEm
With my brothers and me at old Lake Michigan


         D MajorD
There's a little boy
          E minorEm
He's got big brown eyes
         D MajorD
He's got swimming trunks
        A augmentedA
?bout twice his size
            D MajorD
Looking at a steel mill sunset
      E minorEm
Skipping a stone,
C majorC   C/EC/E   A minorAm    G+G     D MajorD
"hey, ain't you a little young to feel so alone?"

G+G           E minorEm             C majorC
Well they changed the name of my hometown When we moved away
A minorAm         C/GC/G        E minorEm
Now it's more than words that I don't recognize
G+G              E minorEm                   C majorC
That kid down at the filling station tried to keep my change from a twenty
A minorAm          C/GC/G       E minorEm
I could see that cold assurance in his eyes


         D MajorD           E minorEm
Hey you need ten dollars for the rainy day?
        D MajorD          A augmentedA
Save and go to college or just get away
            D MajorD         E minorEm
Or you could spend that money on a two-day stone
  C majorC   C/EC/E    A minorAm       G+G     D MajorD
Oh, there are worse things in this world than being alone let me tell you now...


Solo:
A minorAm   E minorEm (x7)
C majorC    C/EC/E   A minorAm   G+G    D MajorD

       G+G      E minorEm        C majorC
So, if you're driving from Chicago, east of Gary
    A minorAm      C/GC/G        E minorEm
And you find a fallen town that has two names
G+G           E minorEm         C majorC
There'll be no one to possibly remember
 A minorAm             C/GC/G       E minorEm
A augmentedA little lonesome brown-eyed boy who went by James

          D MajorD
Oh the mill's shut down
          E minorEm
But the air's still sour
        D MajorD
You get a hotel room
           A augmentedA
You gotta pay by the hour
        D MajorD
Oh the good old days
         E minorEm
are just good and gone
C majorC     C/EC/E  A minorAm  G+G    D MajorD
Like autumn leaves on a burning lawn


G+G        E minorEm       C majorC
I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago
A minorAm             C/GC/G           E minorEm
With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind