Hold This Town Together

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[Verse 1]
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I haven't been to church in years
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This mornin' I think I might
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Clear my guilty conscious from what happened here last night
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The last time I was back in this town drinking with old friends
  Em                                 C            G
I said it was the last time yeah but here we go again

[Chorus]
         C                  G          D           G
And it's one more round for Randy, for Louis and for Vern
             C                    G
Pass the one hitter, Salmon river quiver
         D
Pass the flask of Janie's bourbon
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I know everything is changing, and I know nothing lasts forever
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God bless the folks that try so hard to hold this town together

[Verse 2]
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Is Abigail still slinging drinks down at the Two Nineteen
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Is Dave staying late to shoot the breeze and keep her company
     G                                     C                G
Does she still think the good old days are when she was eighteen
        Em                                  C           G
Sitting in her boyfriend's basement high on methamphetamines

[Chorus]
         C                  G          D           G
And it's one more round for Randy, for Louis and for Vern
             C                    G
Pass the one hitter, Salmon river quiver
         D
Pass the flask of Janie's bourbon
       Am             G                   D               C
I know everything is changing, and I know nothing lasts forever
                                                       G
God bless the folks that try so hard to hold this town together

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Listening to this dive bar band and I'm staring at my check
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Last call was a while ago but I ain't done drinking yet
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I make my way down Lake Street in my old man's sixty-five
         D                                 C             G
With the same car full of loners that could never say goodnight

[Chorus]
         C                  G          D           G
And it's one more round for Randy, for Louis and for Vern
             C                    G
Pass the one hitter, Salmon river quiver
         D
Pass the flask of Janie's bourbon
       Am             G                   D               C
I know everything is changing, and I know nothing lasts forever
                                                       G
God bless the folks that try so hard to hold this town together
    C                                    D              G
God bless the folks that try so hard to hold this town together