Milltowns Chords & Lyrics - Mark Erelli

[VERSE]
You were a [F]legend when I [C]met you
Intro[F]duced by a mutual [C]friend
I [F]laughed when you [C]called me "[Dm]Grasshopper”
Though I [Am]didn’t know what it [F]meant

[VERSE]
We stayed up all night [C]drinking
[F]Most of it is still a [C]blur
But I remember [F]picking a[C]long while you [Dm]sang every song
By [Am]Mississippi John H[F]urt

[VERSE]
And the [F]way you got so [C]serious
When you [F]told me you invented the [C]blues
Then you [F]smiled in that [C]way I could [Dm]never tell
If you [Am]didn’t really think it was [F]true

[CHORUS]
Now I’m [F]driving through these [C]milltowns
Down empty moonlit [F]streets
Where the vacant storefront [G]windows look like [C]missing teeth
They disap[F]pear into my [G]rearview
All a[C]long the rural [F]route
I pray for [C]all that can’t be rescued
After [F]everything goes [C]south

[VERSE]
On a [F]split bill up in [C]Portland
I was [F]getting ready to go [C]on
You said, "[F]Grasshopper, [C]you sing ‘[Dm]Birches’
I’ve been [Am]singing it for too [F]long”

[VERSE]
So, I[F] sang it like I’d[C] written it
Thoug[F]h I wished you ha[C]dn’t asked
I couldn’t [F]shake that fe[C]eling [Dm]
Like somet[Am]hing had been passe[F]d

[VERSE]
You w[F]atched from behin[C]d the curtain
And I[F] never will forge[C]t
How your pu[F]lling on that[C] bourbon [Dm]
Looked lik[Am]e Russian Roulette [F]

[CHORUS]
Now I’m [F]driving through these [C]milltowns
Down empty moonlit [F]streets
Where the vacant storefront [G]windows look like [C]missing teeth
They disap[F]pear into my [G]rearview
All a[C]long the rural [F]route
I pray for [C]all that can’t be rescued
After [F]everything goes [C]south