White Rose

(Key of E, played from open C 
position with capo at the 4th fret)

C Am Em F  (x2)

         C                     
Well the whole town came out to 
           Am
watch the day they paved the parking
 lot

    Em                        F   
Somebody hung a ribbon up and then
                  F
 they cut it down.

And that big white rose up on that 
sign was the innocence in all our 
lives
And you could see its neon light 
from half a mile out.
Gas was fifty cents a gallon and 
they'd put it in for you,
And they'd check your oil and pump 
your tires and wash your windows, 
too.
And we'd shine those cars as bright 
as bright and we'd go park 
underneath those lights
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Stare out at the prairie sky, there 
was nothing else to do.

                Am                 
But now there's plywood for glass, 
          Em
where the windows all got smashed

            F                      
And there's just a chunk of 
              G
concrete where those old pumps used 
to stand.

          Am                       
There's a couple of cars half out 
                 Em
of the ground, an oil sign still 
spins 'round and 'round

    F                           
But I guess a White Rose filling 
                   G      Am
station is just a memory now.

And the girls would spend a couple 
of bucks just to meet the boys 
working at the pumps
And they'd grow up and fall in love 
and they'd all move away.
Strangers used to stop and ask how 
far they'd driven off the map,
And then they built that overpass 
and now they stay out on the 
highway.

(Chorus)
        F                          
And the neon sign was the heart and
         Am
 soul of this old one-horse town

         G                       
And it's like it lost its will to 
          F
live the day they shut it down.

(Chorus)

(Repeat last line, then Am G Am)