My Little Town
Words & music by Paul Simon 1975


[Intro]

  

  

  

[ Verse 1 ]
 
     
  In my little

 town
            
   I grew up b

     
eliev--ing
             
  God keeps Hi

          
s eye on us al

     
l
             
  And He used 

             
to lean upon m

  
e
            
   As I pledge

            
d allegiance t

          
o the wall
          
   Lord I reca

ll
             
My little town

 

[Verse 2]
            
Coming home af

      
ter school
           
    Flying my 

            
bike past the 

   
gates
             
Of the factori

       
es
            
   My mom doin

             
g the laundry
            
   Hanging our

  
 shirts
             
In the dirty b

         
reeze

[Verse 3]
              
 And after it 


rains
          
There's a rainbow
              
And all of the

            
 colors are bl

ack
            
It's not that 

              
the colors are

    
n't there
              
It's just imag

        
in-ation they 

    
lack
              
Everything's t

   
he same

             
Back   in my l

                
ittle town

  

   

[Chorus]
             
Nothing but th

           
e dead and dyi

 
ng 
              
Back in my lit

          
tle town
             
Nothing but th

           
e dead and dyi

 
ng 
              
Back in my lit

             
tle town

             
  In my little

   
 town

[Verse 4]
           
    I never me

            
ant nothin'
              
I was just my 

               
fathers son
           
   Saving my m

     
oney
            
   Dreaming of

      
 glory
            
   Twitching l

          
ike a finger
            
On the trigger

           
 of a gun
             
Leaving nothin

              
g but the dead

      
 and dying
              
Back in my lit

          
tle town 

[Outro]
             
Nothing but th

           
e dead and dyi

 
ng 
            
Back in my lit

           
tle town
             
Nothing but th

           
e dead and dyi

 
ng 
            
Back in my lit

              
tle town

             
Nothing but th

           
e dead and dyi

 
ng 
            
Back in my lit

              
tle town