Small Towns and Big Dreams-
Written and recorded by Paul Brandt

*Note- If you are a more advanced player there is a more difficult way to 
play the chorus in this song with the bass note progression, I’ve written it 
out below the basic version.

Intro: F  C  Bb  C  (x2)
F		C
I grew up in a small town
Bb                     C             F
A wheat fields for a downtown kinda place
F                     C
There was really not much around
Bb                      C
You blink and you miss it
F                  C
I never knew what life would bring
      Bb          C
But I always had big dreams
F                     C
I loved to play my guitar and sing
          Bb               C
And every night I’d wish that
Dm                     C
I’d get a shot on the Opry stage
Bb                       C
And have people come and see me play
Dm               C
Blasting on the radio waves
          Bb             C
Enough to make my momma cry

Chorus:
                      F
Cause that’s where I come from
Bb           C
That’s who I am
                 F
Hard workin and God blessed
Bb                     C
Yes sir and thank you ma’am
Dm                          C            Bb
The best things around that I have ever seen
           Gm              C    F
Came from small towns and big dreams

F                         C
That small town went and grew up
Bb            C
But I never changed much by God’s grace
F                   C
Friends and family kept in touch
       Bb            C
When I moved to Tennessee
Dm              C
Sing my songs, travel round
Bb                      C
I met a girl and we’re settling down
Dm               C
We wanna find a small town
Bb                       C
Where we can raise a family

CHORUS

Bb
I been around the world

Don’t matter anywhere I go
C
Even here in Fort McMurray

I found my kinda folks
       Gm           F
It’s about you and who you are
     Bb
It’s all a state of mind
            Gm             F
And as I’m giving you my heart
            C
I hope you find

CHORUS

Chord diagrams:
F-  XX3211
Bb- X13331 (bar 1) or play XX3331
Dm- XX0231
Gm- 355333 (bar 3)


Chorus (advanced):  For the [F-Gm-A-Bb] progression use power chords (E-form 
bar chords strumming only bottom two strings)

                      F   Gm  A
Cause that’s where I come from
       Bb     C
That’s who I am
                 F   Gm
Hard workin and God blessed
A            Bb        C
Yes sir and thank you ma’am
Dm                          C            Bb
The best things around that I have ever seen
           Gm  A  Bb       C   F  Gm  A  Bb  C
Came from small towns and big dreams