Biography:
Lori McKenna (née Lorraine Giroux, born December 22, 1968) is an American folk singer/songwriter. Her album releases to date include Paper Wings and Halo (2000), Pieces of Me (2001), The Kitchen Tapes (2004), Bittertown (2004), Unglamorous (2007), Lorraine (2011), and Massachusetts (2013).
Lori McKenna’s first name is actually Lorraine. She is named after the mother she lost when she was only seven, but whose impact on Lori’s life reverberates to this day.
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Other songs:
- A Mother Never Rests
- Afternoons
- All A Woman Wants
- All I Ever Do
- All These Things
- Always Want You
- American Revolver
- Beautiful Man
- Better With Time
- Bible Song
- Buy This Town
- Confetti
- Cowardly Lion
- Deserving Song
- Drinkin Problem
- Fake Plastic Trees
- Falter
- Fireflies
- Girl Like Me
- Giving Up On Your Hometown
- God Never Made One Of Us To Be Alone
- God Will Thank You
- Good Marriage
- Grown Up Now
- Halfway Home
- Hardly Speaking A Word
- How Romantic Is That
- How To Be Righteous
- How To Survive
- Humble And Kind
- I Know You
- If He Tried
- If Whiskey Were A Woman
- If You Ask
- Im Not Crazy
- Instead
- Its Easy When You Smile
- Jealousy
- Ladders And Parachutes
- Leaving This Life
- Like Patsy Would
- Lone Star
- Lorraine
- Love Can Put It Back Together
- Love To Be Cruel For
- Make Every Word Hurt
- Mars
- Monday Afternoon
- Mr Sunshine
- My Love Follows You Where You Go
- My Sweetheart
- Never Be Back
- Never Die Young
- Not In This Life
- Numbered Doors
- Old Men Young Women
- One Man
- Paper Wings And Halo
- Paying The Price
- People Get Old
- Pieces Of Me
- Pink Sweater
- Pour
- Rocket Science
- Rose Of Jericho
- Rubys Shoes
- Salt
- Shouting
- Silver Bus
- Smaller And Smaller
- Starlight
- Susanna
- Swallows Me Whole
- Sweet Disposition
- Take Me With You When You Go
- Thats How You Know
- The Bird And The Rifle
- The Lot Behind St Marys
- The Luxury Of Knowing
- The Most
- The Other Boys
- The Time Ive Wasted
- This Fire
- Three Kids No Husband
- Time Ive Wasted
- Time Ive Wasted On You
- Unglamorous
- We Were Cool
- Whats One More Time
- Witness To Your Life
- Would You Love Me Then
- Wreck You
- Written Permission
- You Are Loved
- You Get A Love Song
- Your Next Lover
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Lori McKenna - Giving Up On Your Hometown
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
G Am G Am
[Verse 1]
G Am
Well, I don't know where the cool kids hang on Friday night
G Am
Used to park our parent's car by the billboard sign
C G
They tore it down years ago to build a small high-rise
C Em D
It's abandoned now and it's been that way for quite some time
[Verse 2]
G Am
It don't make sense, but the cheap motel is always open
G Am
Seems like we're sitting in a hand-basket, wondering where it's going
C G
There's a freshwater shark in a small fish tank behind the counter
C Em D
Door's always locked and you gotta pre-pay in cash by the hour
[Chorus]
C Em D
The sunsets still look the way they always do
C Em D C
Over the backyard trees my grandma used to sit under in the afternoon
Em D
And you can't keep everything the way you want it
Am C
Feels like even the ghosts are getting out
G Am G Am
Giving up on your hometown
[Verse 3]
G Am
Every single Sunday, 10am, we were in that pew
G Am
I was married there and baptized there and my kids were too
C G
My mother sang in the women's choir before she died
C Em D
And the day they sold that church even the statue of Mother Mary cried
[Chorus]
C Em D
The sunsets still look the way they always do
C Em D C
Over the backyard trees my grandma used to sit under in the afternoon
Em D
And you can't keep everything the way you want it
Am C
Feels like even the ghosts are getting out
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
[Bridge]
C Am
And every kid that's left, just kept going
G D
And every debt we didn't pay, we just keep owing
G Am
Never visit your daddy's grave, but we go by the house
G Am
He'd be working on a car in the driveway if he was with us now
C G
And that porch swing you built for your mama, is all but gone
C Em G D
I guess even when you stay right here, sometimes you can't go home
[Outro]
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
G Am G Am
Giving up on your hometown
Lori McKenna - Giving Up On Your Hometown
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
G Am G Am
[Verse 1]
G Am
Well, I don't know where the cool kids hang on Friday night
G Am
Used to park our parent's car by the billboard sign
C G
They tore it down years ago to build a small high-rise
C Em D
It's abandoned now and it's been that way for quite some time
[Verse 2]
G Am
It don't make sense, but the cheap motel is always open
G Am
Seems like we're sitting in a hand-basket, wondering where it's going
C G
There's a freshwater shark in a small fish tank behind the counter
C Em D
Door's always locked and you gotta pre-pay in cash by the hour
[Chorus]
C Em D
The sunsets still look the way they always do
C Em D C
Over the backyard trees my grandma used to sit under in the afternoon
Em D
And you can't keep everything the way you want it
Am C
Feels like even the ghosts are getting out
G Am G Am
Giving up on your hometown
[Verse 3]
G Am
Every single Sunday, 10am, we were in that pew
G Am
I was married there and baptized there and my kids were too
C G
My mother sang in the women's choir before she died
C Em D
And the day they sold that church even the statue of Mother Mary cried
[Chorus]
C Em D
The sunsets still look the way they always do
C Em D C
Over the backyard trees my grandma used to sit under in the afternoon
Em D
And you can't keep everything the way you want it
Am C
Feels like even the ghosts are getting out
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
[Bridge]
C Am
And every kid that's left, just kept going
G D
And every debt we didn't pay, we just keep owing
G Am
Never visit your daddy's grave, but we go by the house
G Am
He'd be working on a car in the driveway if he was with us now
C G
And that porch swing you built for your mama, is all but gone
C Em G D
I guess even when you stay right here, sometimes you can't go home
[Outro]
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
G Am
Giving up on your hometown
G Am G Am
Giving up on your hometown
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