A                          E
Standing outside of Dollar General
        D        A   
Another MLK boulevard
A                       E
Getting one more bag of dime store weed
   D                A
To smoke in my backyard
         F#m                   E
Well I'm so damn bored I could cut myself
E                       A
Only four more hours to kill
A                  D               E                   A
Every day until my mom gets out of working at the mill

[Chorus]
               D            E
You gotta stay gold, now my pony boy
A                      D
Don't let them get you down
D                         E
While the locals work for coffee
A                     D
Remember You own this town
      F#m           E
Not a soul is gonna listen
           A                   D
Yeah, your scream won't make a sound
       F#m      E         D
With a world so black and white, boy...
     A       D     E       A      A       D     E       A         
Stay gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold

[Verse 2]
A                       E
We went by the Marietta train tracks
           D                A   
Where your sister lost her days
A               E
Traded a dirty magazine
       D                A   
To the pinball guy for plays
  F#m                 E
I remember you always saying
E                   A
If you ever got out alive
F#m        E         D                         E                        A
You'd quit using and you'd get married to that girl on page twenty-five

[Chorus]
               D            E
You gotta stay gold, now my pony boy
A                      D
Don't let them get you down
D                         E
While the locals work for coffee
A                     D
Remember You own this town
      F#m           E
Not a soul is gonna listen
           A                   D
Yeah, your scream won't make a sound
       F#m      E         D
With a world so black and white, boy...
     A       D     E       A      A       D     E       A         
Stay gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold

[Chorus]
               D            E
You gotta stay gold, now my pony boy
A                      D
Don't let them get you down
D                         E
While the locals work for coffee
A                     D
Remember You own this town
      F#m           E
Not a soul is gonna listen
           A                   D
Yeah, your scream won't make a sound
       F#m      E         D
With a world so black and white, boy...
     A       D     E       A      A       D     E       A         
Stay gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold, gooooooooold