Chord/Tab song: Downtown

Downtown

Owen Temple


[D]Downtown's all clos[G]ed down
They'[A]ve boarded up the windows
[G]Just like an old ghos[D]t town
[D]The storefronts are empty
[G]There's noone around
[A]Downtown's all clos[D]ed down

[A]A small town in Texas by th[G]e courthouse in the [D]square
[A]The middle of the afternoon and t[G]here's nobody[D] there
[G]Well I shook my head and wondered
[D]Where all the businesses had gone
[A]There used to be everything that you'd ever need now
[G]Just the bank's still
Holdin[D]' on

Chorus

The old drugstore is vacant
And the café's locked it doors
The movie marquis is falling down
There's no more hardware stores
So I sat down on a bench
I watched a car go driving by
I wondered what had killed downtown
And how the people could let it die

Chorus

The railroad brought the people here
Now the interstate draws them away
It moved the steady business east
And left these old buildings behind to stay
But some folks in town remember
A time not too long ago
When a film called Casablanca played
At the town square picture show

Chorus