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Harrisburg

Josh Ritter
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
 Romero got married on the fifth of July
 In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn
 Could have got married in the revival man's tent
 But there ain't no reviving what's gone
 Slipped like a shadow from the family he made
 In a little white house by the woods
 Dropped the kids at the mission, with a rose for the virgin
 She knew he was gone for good
 It's a long way to Heaven
 It's closer to Harrisburg
 And that's still a long way from the place where we are
 And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks
 And the devil is a railroad car
 Could have stayed somewhere but the train tracks kept going
 And it seems like they always left soon
 and the wolves that he ran with they moaned low and painful
 sang sad misereres to the moon
 (chorus)
 Rose at the altar withered and wilted
 Romero sank into a dream
 He didn't make Heaven
 He didn't make Harrisburg
 He died in a hole in between
 Some say that man is the root of all evil
 Others say God's a drunkard for pain
 Me I believe that the Garden of Eden
 Was burned to make way for a train

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Readable chord sheet for Harrisburg by Josh Ritter

[Am]   [F]   [C]
[C]    [G]
[Am]   [F]   [C]
[C]    [G]   [Am]

Romero got married on the fifth of July
In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn
Could have got married in the revival man's tent
But there ain't no reviving what's gone
Slipped like a shadow from the family he made
In a little white house by the woods
Dropped the kids at the mission, with a rose for the virgin
She knew he was gone for good

[C]        [G]
[F]    [C]   [G]
[Am]   [F]   [C]
[C]    [G]   [Am]

It's a long way to Heaven
It's closer to Harrisburg
And that's still a long way from the place where we are
And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks
And the devil is a railroad car

Could have stayed somewhere but the train tracks kept going
And it seems like they always left soon
and the wolves that he ran with they moaned low and painful
sang sad misereres to the moon

(chorus)

Rose at the altar withered and wilted
Romero sank into a dream
He didn't make Heaven
He didn't make Harrisburg
He died in a hole in between
Some say that man is the root of all evil
Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train

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