Milltowns

F C You were a legend when I met you F C Introduced by a mutual friend F C Dm I laughed when you called me “Grasshopper” Am F Though I didn’t know what it meant C We stayed up all night drinking F C Most of it is still a blur F C Dm But I remember picking along while you sang every song Am F By Mississippi John Hurt F C And the way you got so serious F C When you told me you invented the blues F C Dm Then you smiled in that way I could never tell Am F If you didn’t really think it was true F C Now I’m driving through these milltowns F Down empty moonlit streets G C Where the vacant storefront windows look like missing teeth F G They disappear into my rearview C F All along the rural route C I pray for all that can’t be rescued F C After everything goes south F C On a split bill up in Portland F C I was getting ready to go on F C Dm You said, “Grasshopper, you sing ‘Birches’ Am F I’ve been singing it for too long” F C So, I sang it like I’d written it F C Though I wished you hadn’t asked F C Dm I couldn’t shake that feeling Am F Like something had been passed F C You watched from behind the curtain F C And I never will forget F C Dm How your pulling on that bourbon Am F Looked like Russian Roulette F C Now I’m driving through these milltowns F Down empty moonlit streets G C Where the vacant storefront windows look like missing teeth F G They disappear into my rearview C F All along the rural route C I pray for all that can’t be rescued F C After everything goes south