Biography:
Chatham County Line are an American bluegrass musical group. Formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1999 from the ashes of the defunct Stillhouse, the band has released four albums, one on the Bonfire label and three on the Yep Roc label (who they were linked with by the producer Chris Stamey), and have become popular in Europe as well as their native USA. Their most recent tour took in numerous European destinations, including the Lowlands rock festival in the Netherlands.
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[Intro]
D F#m G A D
[Verse]
D G D
Well I spent my whole life since I was high as a knee
D A
By that two-lane blacktop they call Route 23
D
My daddy ran a service station
G D
And the pumps they did shine
D F#m G D
I'd watch him wash the windshields, keep the old look to that mind
[Verse]
D G D
Well the days they were long, but the money was good
D A
The only things that changed were the seasons and the shapes of the hoods
D G D
'Til the government came on the radio in late '55
D F#m
Said the state's gonna build a new highway
G D
One that's fast, smooth and wide
[Chorus]
G Bm D
With that new highway, no one stops here anymore
D G D A
And you can't make living without swinging that door
D G D
The sign by the roadside still says "Come On In"
F#m G D
But the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
[Verse]
D G D
Now daddy was as stubborn as a mule in the snow
D A
He said, "Good folks return to the places that they know"
D G D
But after the gravel arrived and those steamrollers whined
D F#m
All those good folks left me and daddy
G D
And those two lanes behind
[Chorus]
G Bm D
With that new highway, no one stops here anymore
D G D A
And you can't make living without swinging that door
D G D
The sign by the roadside still says "Come On In"
F#m G D
But the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
[Instrumental]
D D F#m G G G A D
[Verse]
D G D
Now the calendar on the wall still reads 19 and 75
D A
No one crossed out the day that my daddy died
D G D
We laid him in the ground 'neath that old sycamore tree
D F#m G D
That shades a boarded up gas station... out on Route 23
[Chorus]
G Bm D
With that new highway, no one stops here anymore
D G D A
And you can't make living without swinging that door
D G D
The sign by the roadside still says "Come On In"
F#m G D
But the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
F#m G D
Yeah, the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
D F#m G A D
[Verse]
D G D
Well I spent my whole life since I was high as a knee
D A
By that two-lane blacktop they call Route 23
D
My daddy ran a service station
G D
And the pumps they did shine
D F#m G D
I'd watch him wash the windshields, keep the old look to that mind
[Verse]
D G D
Well the days they were long, but the money was good
D A
The only things that changed were the seasons and the shapes of the hoods
D G D
'Til the government came on the radio in late '55
D F#m
Said the state's gonna build a new highway
G D
One that's fast, smooth and wide
[Chorus]
G Bm D
With that new highway, no one stops here anymore
D G D A
And you can't make living without swinging that door
D G D
The sign by the roadside still says "Come On In"
F#m G D
But the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
[Verse]
D G D
Now daddy was as stubborn as a mule in the snow
D A
He said, "Good folks return to the places that they know"
D G D
But after the gravel arrived and those steamrollers whined
D F#m
All those good folks left me and daddy
G D
And those two lanes behind
[Chorus]
G Bm D
With that new highway, no one stops here anymore
D G D A
And you can't make living without swinging that door
D G D
The sign by the roadside still says "Come On In"
F#m G D
But the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
[Instrumental]
D D F#m G G G A D
[Verse]
D G D
Now the calendar on the wall still reads 19 and 75
D A
No one crossed out the day that my daddy died
D G D
We laid him in the ground 'neath that old sycamore tree
D F#m G D
That shades a boarded up gas station... out on Route 23
[Chorus]
G Bm D
With that new highway, no one stops here anymore
D G D A
And you can't make living without swinging that door
D G D
The sign by the roadside still says "Come On In"
F#m G D
But the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
F#m G D
Yeah, the bulbs are long since burnt out, not to light up again
Chauncey Olcott
Chava Alberstein
Chava Flores
Chavez
Che Joven