Motor City Man

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All they said, don't disturb your head
D         E       A
About the work we do
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Just stay in school, someday you'll do
D       E        A
What we couldn't do
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But run boy run in the summer sun
     G
On a summer day
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You know what you know and you can't wait to grow
   G          E
Be on your way
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I could only understand that my dad's a good man
         D    E  A
And he's glad payday

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Now high school plan, be a motor city man
D       E        A
Working night or day
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No matter who you are, you've got to have a car
D      E A
In the USA
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Something aint right about the billboards filing
         G
Down the big highway
    A                     C            D
Now hard times again, and good working men
            G           E
Are sittin? home all day
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I know this plant's closing down and I'm leaving this town
        D    E  A
I'll be gone payday

         A                                C          D
Yeah the red lights and green lights that lighted my home
          G
Are gonna light my way
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Goodbye to the park and the corner after dark
        G             E
Where I lost my faith
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Let the factories all fall down to the mother ground
        D    E  A
I'll be gone payday


Yeah, I've done all I can I'm a Motor city man
And I'm on my way
Said I'm on my way
I said I'm on my way