Boston by Patty Griffin
Album: Silver Bell
Track 3
2013
Standard Tuning
Capo on the 4th fret
Chords:
: x32010
: 320003 or 320033
: xx0232
: 022100
: x02220
Intro: x 3
x 4
I went back to Boston
Back to the city you were lost in
I went back to the place
Without your face in the stone
Walked around Harvard Square
The runaway kids are still hanging out there
And I took the red line
All the way across the River Charles
Some things try and try
But they never fly, and they never fly
You reach up from the waves
And find that you re only waving goodbye
Went walking in Boston
Over a bridge I used to walk on
I was looking for my heart
That I d flung into that sea of stone
Boston said, you need not apply
For your license to fly
Hey, young lady, don t look so surprised
You know you re not alone
Some things try and try
But they never fly, and they never fly
You reach up from the waves
And find that you re only waving goodbye
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It was Memorial Day
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I went to where you lay
There were thousands of people
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Just like you in a giant graveyard
You came all of that way
Looking for the sky, you got a slap in the face
You had a desperate need to be loved
You just got put in that place
You better know your place, boy
Some things try and try
But they never fly, and they never fly
You reach up from the waves
And find that you re only waving goodbye
Only waving
You re only waving
You re only waving
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You re only waving goodbye
