The Way That It Was Ode To A Small Town chords by Wicker Suite

• Capo on 5th
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: F

Intro:

C  G/B  Am  G
F  C/E  Dm  G
C  G/B  Am  G
F  G


Verse 1:
    C
The man at the bus stop, in his old faded coat
  Dm         C/E         F
I see him on Tuesdays on Worradree Road
C          G/B       Am                  G
Just after smoko, he sits there and waits
          Dm          C/E          F            G    F
Takes the bus not the taxi cos the driver's his mate

Verrse 2:
         C            G/B     Am       G
It's his weekly parade to the town's RSL
     Dm            C/E           F
They won't let him walk cos that one time he fell
       C          G/B            Am            G
And he hasn't a license cos they won't let him drive
       Dm         C/E          F
But he don't need ID they just wave him inside


Verse 3:
         C          G/B               Am        G
Past the flame of remembrance and the medals display
        Dm              C/E        F
And the screens playing Keno to an empty buffet
         C           G/B         Am          G
He'll be having the usual, don't need to be told
          Dm              C/E          F                G
And he'll sail through to sundown on a schooner of Gold


Chorus:
       C
On the way, through today
F      C/E           Dm7
In the love, and the loss
G       C G/B    Am   C
And the way that it is
      F        G           C
Turns into the way that it was


Instrumental Break:
G/B  Am  G  F
C/E  Dm7  G  C
G/B  Am  G  F
G


Verse 4:
          C
Well he’d see Geraldine when they'd come for the shows
Dm          C/E             F
Back in the day when they'd stop for the Ode
     C                   G/B          Am          C
They bought a three bedder and in the blink of an eye
   Dm          C/E      F
He kissed Geraldine her final goodbye


Verse 5:
   C           G/B        Am          C
He worked as a firey, odd jobs on the side
Dm7           C/E          F
Raised in the day when the menfolk provide
        C               G/B        Am         G
Well he lives all alone now in the grey fibro house
       Dm7            C/E           F
And he says, when I'm done they can carry me out


Verse 6:
C               G       Am           G
Murray's is shut it was cheaper than Coles
        Dm7       C/E        F
But the newcomers favour the new over old
          C           G/B        Am       G
There are brick boxes popping up all over town
   Dm7          C/E         F             G
He watches them pulling his memories down


Chorus:
       C
On the way, through today
F      C/E           Dm7
In the love, and the loss
G       C G/B    Am   C
And the way that it is
      F        G/B         C
Turns into the way that it was


Bridge:
F                    C          G
Maybe it's progress, maybe it's death
F        Am                         G
Maybe we just don't know what it is yet
F                            C           G
Maybe that yarn with the old bloke you met
Am              G           F             G
Might help this little town not to forget


Chorus:
       C
On the way, through today
F      C/E           Dm7
In the love, and the loss
G       C G/B    Am   C
And the way that it is
      F        G           C   G/B  Am7
Turns into the way that it was
       C G         F   C/E  Dm7 G
Oh the way that it was


Outro:
C/E  Dm7  G  C  G/B
Am  C  F  G  C