Growing Up chords - Lori McKenna ♬ How to Play

Growing Up chords

[Intro]
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[Verse]
Em        D           G
Backyard dirt in our veins
Em                D              G
Blood of Christ, Sunday morning clothes
Em          D        G
   We were coming of age
       Em                  D                        C
In the way, way back of a station wagon, breathing secondhand smoke
 
Em           D               G
   Ash trays in the kitchen sink
Em             D         G
Oprah's on the big TV at 4
Em         D            C
   Barbie clothes in a Crown Royal bag
              Em                  D                  G
Jesus in the living room, Mama's locked her bedroom door
 
 
[Chorus]

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          C     G           C       G
When the way it was wasn't what it seemed
 D                                 Em                   D
Lemonade stand summers, prom king working at the Dairy Queen
 
         C        G                D          Em
All the stars we hung above those small-town trees
 C                                 D
Young hearts still unbroken, flies by before you know it
 
   Em                   D         C
If you move on just the way time does
 
Till something brings you right back
 
    G        C
To growing up
 G        C
Growing up
 
 
[Verse]
Em                D          G
   Church field, travel carnival
     Em               D              G
I'll meet you at the Ferris wheel at 10
      Em                D             C
We'll step across that line, just as far as we can go
            Em                  D                  G
Before it's our turn to see how big the real world is
 
 
[Chorus]
          C     G           C       G
When the way it was wasn't what it seemed
 D                          Em             D
Making out in back seats behind the Dairy Queen
 
         C        G                D          Em
All the stars we hung above those small-town trees
 C                                      D
Young hearts trying to out run 'em, promise we don't become 'em
 
     Em          D         C
Just move on the way time does
 
Till something brings you right back
 
    G        C
To growing up
 G        C
Growing up
 
 
[Break]
           D                             C
Now you're six years sober, taking your mother to her treatments
              D                              C
She says she wants to see the old house one more time
    Em                D              C
And you can't go back any more than she can go back
 
                                              D
And if you said you didn't miss it, you'd be lying
 
 
[Chorus]
          C     G           C       G
When the way it was wasn't what it seemed
 D                           G
Maybe you could trasde that freedom back for some of that naive
 
         C        G                D          Em
All the stars we hung above those small-town trees
 C                           D
Maybe they can remind you, I bet they'd recognize you
 
          Em                D              C
You think you moved on, but no one really does
          Em                     D        C
Just like no one tells you it'll be this tough, this tough
 
 
[Outro]
 G         C
Growing up
 G        C
Growing up
 
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