Robbie Fulks

Thats Where Im From

Robbie Fulks


Tom: E

C#m   Bsus  Asus    E

[Verse 1]
Asus        E
Back in the driveway
    B
The end of the workday
     Asus           E
How fast that world disappears
        Asus      E
A fresh lawn, a pine tree
  B             C#m
A neighbor just like me
      Asus                       B
Who's worked all his life to get here
C#              Asus       E
A man climbs as high as he can
C#              Asus           B
But his heart belongs where it began

[Verse 2]
      Asus       E
I can see in my mind's eye
  B
A shack on a hllside
  Asus                 E
A mean billy-goat on a chain
    Asus      E
And Dad doing battle
     B            C#
With dirt hard as gravel
    Asus                    B
And summers the crops never came
C#                Asus        E
We'd shoot down a pheasant in flight
C#                   Asus      B
And sing songs about Jesus all night

[Refrain]
E                B
That's where I'm from
B                 E
Where time passes slower
E                B
That's where I'm from
B                        E
Where it's yes ma'am and no sir
E                  Asus
You can't tell I'm country
              C#
Just you look closer
     B          Asus
It's deep in my blood
Asus        E
Two cars, a picket fence
B                 C#  B
That's where I've come
Asus           E
Dirt roads and double-wides
B                E
That's where I'm from

[Verse 3]
Asus                   E
Night school on a fast track
    B
And no cause to look back
     Asus                   E
That place put a scar on my soul
      Asus              E
And I swore to my young ones
    B            C#
Would never know hunger
Asus                      B
And the good life is all they know
      C#                A           E
Well, I've watched them grow, now I see
   C#               A         B
One thing separates them from me

[Refrain]
E                B
That's where I'm from
B                E
Where time passes slower
E                B
That's where I'm from
B                           E
Where it's yes ma'am and no sir
E                     Asus
If you can't tell I'm country
                   C#
Then just you look closer
     B          Asus
It's deep in my blood

[Verse 4]
Asus              E
A white collar, a necktie
B                 C#  B
That's where I've come
A                  E
Half-nekkid in the moonshine
B                E
That's where I'm from
C#                   A             E
If you've ever heard Hank Williams sing
C#                         A             B
Then brother, you know the whole blessed thing

[Refrain]
E                B
That's where I'm from
B                 E
Where time passes slower
E                B
That's where I'm from
B                           E
Where it's yes ma'am and no sir
E                     Asus
If you can't tell I'm country
                   C#
Then just you look closer
     B          Asus
It's deep in my blood

[Outro]
Asus                   E
A long way down a hard road
B                 C#  B
That's where I've come
A                        E
Someplace I can't go home to
B                E
That's where I'm from