F C
You were a legend when I met you
F C
Introduced by a mutual friend
F C Dm
I laughed when you called me “Grasshopper”
Am F
Though I didn’t know what it meant
[Verse]
C
We stayed up all night drinking
F C
Most of it is still a blur
F C Dm
But I remember picking along while you sang every song
Am F
By Mississippi John Hurt
[Verse]
F C
And the way you got so serious
F C
When you told me you invented the blues
F C Dm
Then you smiled in that way I could never tell
Am F
If you didn’t really think it was true
[Chorus]
F C
Now I’m driving through these milltowns
F
Down empty moonlit streets
G C
Where the vacant storefront windows look like missing teeth
F G
They disappear into my rearview
C F
All along the rural route
C
I pray for all that can’t be rescued
F C
After everything goes south
[Verse]
F C
On a split bill up in Portland
F C
I was getting ready to go on
F C Dm
You said, “Grasshopper, you sing ‘Birches’
Am F
I’ve been singing it for too long”
[Verse]
F C
So, I sang it like I’d written it
F C
Though I wished you hadn’t asked
F C Dm
I couldn’t shake that feeling
Am F
Like something had been passed
[Verse]
F C
You watched from behind the curtain
F C
And I never will forget
F C Dm
How your pulling on that bourbon
Am F
Looked like Russian Roulette
[Chorus]
F C
Now I’m driving through these milltowns
F
Down empty moonlit streets
G C
Where the vacant storefront windows look like missing teeth
F G
They disappear into my rearview
C F
All along the rural route
C
I pray for all that can’t be rescued
F C
After everything goes south
