Rochester Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][G][D][A][D][G]
[D][G][A][D]

[Verse 1]
I was born in [D]Rochester
[G]
To a bookmaking [D]man
Had a fake cigar shops
With the [A]games on in the back
[D]See them coming and going
Let [G]them ride on [D]thoroughbreds
Police chief and Tom[G]paw wonder
[A]ing what was the [D]spread
Carried rich men's bag
through the brow
Trying [G]to chase down a little white ball
[D]I learned that any soft place
[A]wasn't good for me at all
[D]Daddy come home fired up look
[G]ing for some sort of release
[D]He beat the hel[G]l out of [A]Timmy,
Timmy beat the hell out of [D]me[G]

[Verse 2]
I would hop the fence out to
this government [D]fields
[G]Run 'til there was nothing
more [D]to feel[G]
Lying there watching planes
just disappear
Know[A]ing one day I'm gonna
fly on out of here
[D]

[Verse 3]
[G][D]
Well that same police chief came
knockin' [G]my first freshman [D]day
Put my daddy in handcuffs and
put his pic[A]ture on the front page
To [D]everyone of [G]his suits and all my dignity
[D]Walk the halls around the court
waiting for any [A]punk to set me free
[D]

[Verse 4]
I [G]would hop the fence out to
this government [D]fields
[G]Run 'til there was nothing
more [D]to feel[G]
Lying there watching planes
just [D]disappear
Knowing [A]one day I'm gonna
fly on out of [D]here

[Verse 5]
Well [D]I got that call to Vietnam just
like [G]everyone else I knew
[D]So scared of the hand grenades threw
them [A]farther than any other troop
I [D]came home like an iron fist and
[G]Timmy tried to take my keys
[D]Ripped open his front pocket that was
[A]the last time he touched [D]me[G]

[Verse 6]
[Bm]Moved to an island out west
up [G]to Breckenridge
[Bm]Met a mermaid on a glass boat [G]and she
[A]promised me some [Bm]kids
Bought a house in [G]Oregon where
you could touch both of the walls
[D]Had a son named Benjamin and I was so
[A]scared of it [D]all[G][D][G][D][G]
[D][G][D][A]
[D]
Well Benjamin walked in the front room
where I [G]was cutting up my hash
[D]Looked into those deep blue eyes
wondering [A]why I'd been so mad
[G]Flushed a quarter [D]pound down the drain
praying [G]for the mercy to confess
Trying [D]to rip the boy from Rochester
[A]right out of my [D]chest

[Verse 7]
We're gon[G]na walk right out
into these heavenly [D]fields
[G]Run like there was no more time to [D]steal
[G]My three boys in the grace of god I f[D]eel[G]
[D]Knowing one[A] day you're gonna
take me out of [D]here
Know[G]ing [A]one day you're
gonna take me out of here
[D]