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Introduction: B
B F# G# E B
Brought out all the kids, waited for their voices to quiet.
B F# G#m G# B
Girls go with your mother, a better house, new Dad and bigger town.
G#m E B G#m E B
We'll stay just the same, we'll just stay the same.
B F# G#m B
Boys this house is haunted, I hear them in the aching of the grain.
B F# G#m B
Grab the saw and hammer, build a brand new start, a brand new house just ten feet down.
G#m E B G#m E B E B E B
We'll stay just the same, we'll just stay the same.
G#m E B
It's like she's barely even there.
B F# G#m B
Peeking out the window, waiting for their voices to quiet.
B F# G#m B
Grandpa slammed the car door, driving through the woods and out of sight.
B G#m E B G#m E B
She has come too soon, that Sunday afternoon.
B F# G#m B
Gray is in their hair now, still the anger shows in waxen brows.
G#m E B G#m B E B E B
We'll stay just the same, we'll just stay the same
G#m E B
It's like he's barely even there.
B F# G#m B
Before his open coffin, Grandma stands beside the fifty years she left behind.
B F# G#m B
Sadness holds me tighter, seeing them together just one time.
G#m E B
It's like I'm barely even there.