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City and Colour - Nowhere, Texas Chords

[intro]
Gm  F  Cm  D#maj7

[verse 1]
Gm      F            Cm D#maj7
 Down in Nowhere, Texas
    Gm            F        Cm D#maj7
Along the highway forty-five
Gm              F           Cm  D#maj7
 There's a ghostly stretch of road
           Gm         F     Cm D#maj7
Where it's hard to stay alive

[verse 2]
Gm      F          Cm   D#maj7
 South, towards Galveston
      Gm      F          Cm  D#maj7
Young girl stayed disappeared
Gm                  F
Where the desert sands
Cm                 D#maj7
turn into the wasteland
      Gm         F                   Cm  D#maj7
The air is thick with the scent of fear

[chorus]
D#maj7     D#maj7     Cm      Cm
Hunting in the      killing fields
      Gm              Gm             F  F
Small-town country boys do their worst
D#maj7  D#maj7       Cm   Cm
No one knows how far it goes
         Gm
It seems that the bayou
    Gm                   F F
has become a world of hurt

[verse 3]
Gm        F              Cm  D#maj7
 Collete's body was discovered
          Gm       F           Cm  D#maj7
In November of nineteen seventy-one
Gm   F        Cm      D#maj7
 Then one after another
Gm           F                       Cm  D#maj7
Victims were found beneath the desert sun

[verse 4]
Gm     F   Cm       D#maj7
 Still no convictions
Gm          F                Cm     D#maj7
Handed down for these violent crimes
          Gm
Will this highway's
     F Cm            D#maj7
history remain a mystery?
            Gm     F         Cm    D#maj7
Or will the truth arrive over time?

[chorus]
D#maj7     D#maj7     Cm      Cm
Hunting in the      killing fields
      Gm              Gm             F  F
Small-town country boys do their worst
D#maj7  D#maj7       Cm   Cm
No one knows how far it goes
         Gm
It seems that the bayou
    Gm                   F
has become a world of hurt

[outro]
F                Gm    F  Cm
 And the devil was there
D#maj7         Gm    F  Cm
 The devil was there
D#maj7         Gm    F  Cm
 The devil was there
D#maj7         Gm    F  Cm  D#maj7  Gm
 The devil was there

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