Harrisburg Josh Ritter
Intro: [Am], first plucking the root note (5th string), and then strum the rest of the chord. It becomes clear when you listen to Josh do it on the album.
[Am] Romero got married on the [F] Fifth of July, [C]
In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn. [G]
He [Am] could've got married in the re[F]vival man's tent,[C]
There ain't no revi[G]vin' what's gone. [Am]
Slipped like a shadow from the [F]family he made,[C]
in a little white house by the woods [G]
Dropped [Am]the kids at the mission with a [F]rose for the [C]virgin,
she knew he was [G]gone for good. [Am]
Its a [C]long way to heaven, [G]its closer to Harrisburg,
But [F]that's still a long way from the [C]place where we [G] are.
And if [Am]evil exists, its a [F]pair of train [C]tracks,
and the devil's a [G]railroad car. [Am]
Could have stayed somewhere but the [F]train tracks kept going [C]
And it seems like they always left [G]soon
and the [Am]wolves that he ran with they [F] moaned low and [C]painful
sang sad miser[G]eres to the moon [Am]
(chorus)
Rose at the altar [F]withered and [C]wilted
Romero sank into a [G]dream
He [Am]didn't make Heaven, he [F]didn't make [C]Harrisburg
He died in a [G]hole in between [Am]
Some say that man is the [F]root of all [C]evil
Others say God's a drunkard for [G]pain
[Am]Me I believe that the [F]Garden of [C]Eden
Was burned to make [G] way for a [Am]train, for a train.
(chorus)
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