The Show Ponies - Folks Back Home Chords

[Verse 1]
       C*
In the forecast of my failure
        F*                C*
I would hope to head back home
F*               C*       G*
Pack up my whole van with everything I own
        Am*
Just as well trade it away
    F*               C*
And start again from scratch
       F*           C*
With a guitar and a notepad
        G*              C*  F* C*
And the clothes upon my back
 
[Verse 2]
            C
Back to the middle of the country
          F              C
I would return to my hometown
      Em             F
Where everyone would ask
            G
"What did I do with my travel 'round?"
             Am
And I'd have nothing much to show
      F               C
Not a house or job or wife
       F            C
Just a couple dozen songs to show
   G            C   F C
As antidotes to life
 
[Chorus]
G                           F               C
I can't quite explain why I do the things I do
      Em                    F
Makes life worth living for me
      G
And I hope the same for you
      Am               G
So go on and make your living
          C           G   F
Give it a song to get you through
         C               G              C  F C F C
With the hope that I can keep on living too
 
[Verse 3]
       C
Are we caught in our delusions?
      F             C
Stuck in a winter's dream?
       Em                 F
Is the message we've been seeking
   G
To drink your Ovaltine?
Am
I refuse to return
       F            C
From a gloryless traversal
F                   C
Tell the folks back home
             G                C
That life is one great big commercial
 
[Chorus]
G                           F               C
I can't quite explain why I do the things I do
      Em                    F
Makes life worth living for me
      G
And I hope the same for you
      Am               G
So go on and make your living
          C           G   F
Give it a song to get you through
         C               G              Am
With the hope that I can keep on living too
 
[Solo]
Am F C G
Am F C G C
 
[Bridge]
          C*
Are these penniless pursuits
            F*             C*
Prevent the progress of my prime?
         Em*             F*
Some may not call this a living
        G*
But I'm very much alive
  Am
A wise man once said
          F*             C*
"You only live until you die"
       F                 C
And to cease my cause is not to see
        G         C        F C
What we can't see otherwise
 
[Chorus]
G                           F               C
I can't quite explain why I do the things I do
      Em                    F
Makes life worth living for me
      G
And I hope the same for you
      Am               G
So go on and make your living
          C           G   F      F*
Give it a song to get you through
         C               G              C  F C F* C
With the hope that I can keep on living too