This is an old revision of the document!
This is my first time tabbing anything here so feel free to correct anything that's wrong but this is how I hear it.
[Intro]
G(walk up)C(walk up)D G
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G
It was 9 A.M. when the U-Haul came
C
And I heard my momma call my name
D
My daddy taught English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
G
He was at work that day,
it was time to go,
We were moving on
[Intro]
G
I was five years old and my sister was three
C
I was wondering what would likely become of me
D
My sister looked sad and I tried to be strong
G
It was hard just to get up and move along
We were (?)
[intro]
G
But by five in the afternoon we were gone
C
And my stepfather welcomed me with open arms
D
We walked right through that apartment door
G
I had never lived in an apartment before
And it was weird
[intro]
G
I'll probably never know what it was like that night
C
For my dad, but I'd wager it was pretty bad
D
My sister and me, we stayed up late
G
Talking in the dark and not feeling so great
(Guitar strumming simplifies and slows here to just soft downward strums)
G C D
We were moving out of our house
G
Into a two-story apartment building across town
C D G
With a swing set and a sandbox in the middle of a parking lot
G C D
And a laundry room full of missing washing machines
G
And two dryers
G C D G
Keep the home fires burning
G C D G
Keep the home fires burning
G C
Keep the home, home fires
D G (Strummed hard for ending)
