Capo: 2nd fret 
 
Intro: G  Am  C  G (2x) 
 
  G                    Am 
That backward town, in my rearview 
  C                    G 
Was gonna be my whole world 
  G                      Am 
Til my factory job, got shipped to Mexico 
  C                           G 
And a city boy stole my sweet girl 
 
 
  G                      Am 
I used to know everybody by name 
  C                  G 
Everybody's moved away 
  G                          Am 
Can't say that I'm really wantin' to go 
         C                     G 
But I've run out of reasons to stay 


Refrão -------------
            G   D   Am       C 
This ain't nothin' like what I,  
Am    D             G 
    had in mind for me 
      G    D   Am  C 
Then again my future, 
Am           D            G 
   Ain't what it used to be
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          G                          Am 
Well I thought like my dad, and his daddy before 
     C                        G 
That I would die where I was born 
         G                   Am 
Live a smalltown dream in a big backyard 
C                     G 
  Raisin' babies and corn 
 
 
      G             Am 
Now here I am, one eye on the road 
   C                           G 
Tryin' to read the map on the dash 
   G                    Am 
Nowhere close to making up my mind 
        C                        G 
With a fork in the road comin' fast 
 
 
(chorus 2x) 
 
 
        G (one strum)   Am (one strum) 
That backward town, in my rear view 
 (pick) C  D            G 
Was gonna be my whole world 
 
 
Outro: G  Am  C  G (play to fade)