{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2759688,"song":"Homestate","artist":"Allan Taylor","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11533845-homestate-chords-by-allan-taylor/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2759688?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSometimes when I'm driving late in the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen there's that special kind of early morning light[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen the evergreen stands out in the dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm thinking about that northern state of New York, New York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York State was good to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause I found a wife and made a family[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIf anyone asks what it means to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, it's the nearest to home I'll ever be, in New York[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, New York city's just a part of the state[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSome people hate it, I think it's great[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt's an honest city, won't tell you a lie[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt'll take your money and look you straight in the eye, New York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen the city got too much to take[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen the pressure built up and we thought we'd break[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen everyone else was headed south[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe went our own way, we headed north of New York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York State was good to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause I found a wife and made a family[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIf anyone asks what it means to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, it's the nearest to home I'll ever be, in New York[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI wish I could take that trip again[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFive hundred miles up to Lake Champlain[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFishing for supper in a homemade boat[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe love we made and the songs I wrote of New York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd we rented a house on the Long Island sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere work in the city was close at hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn the summer we swam in Montauk Bay[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd England felt so far away from New York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York State was good to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause I found a wife and made a family[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIf anyone asks what it means to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, it's the nearest to home I'll ever be, in New York[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd it may sound strange that an Englishman[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShould lose his heart to a foreign land[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMaybe it's because I've been away[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nToo long from her, it's hard to say, New York[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York State was good to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause I found a wife and made a family[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIf anyone asks what it means to me[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell, it's the nearest to home I'll ever be, in New York[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nNew York[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nG\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["G","D","Em","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}