D G Em D G


Bm                                   D
Take the shells that you've collected
F                                       G
Sew them with your favorite silver thread
                                D               A
Now you jingle, now you rattle with every step
Bm                      D
Skeletons upon the stairway
F                                       G
Showing off the teeth inside their heads
                        D                       A
Is it you or are they laughing at what you said?

                D
And when the day came,
C               Bm              B
You had the same name,
                A               
You let your town down
G
Town down
D
Way down

D
And when the day came,
C               Bm              B
You had the same name
                A                       G
You let your town down
G
Town down
D
Way down

A Bm D G A D Bm D B G Bm


Bm                            D
In the dark and down the hillside
B                                       G
Run until you cannot catch your breath
                          D             A
Get the band to play a love song...at your request
Bm           D
Smell the cinnamon and chocolates
F                                G
Marigolds yellow, pink and red
                                D                       A
On the ground you spread a blanket to be your bed

A               D               C
And when the day came,
                Bm              B
You had the same name
                A                       G
You let your town down
G
Town down
D
Way down

A               D               C
And when the day came,
                Bm              B
You had the same name
               A                        G
You let your town down
G
Town down

D               A
Way down

                D               C                     Bm                B
And when you...when you, get on your new shoes
D              G        D
You tore your town down, way down