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We got old time bars still standing on downtown city streets
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  Old ladies serving drinks inside with no color in their cheeks
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Listening to a Haggard song you can put your old blue collar on
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Old Milwaukee on Christmas Eve it's hard to believe

                                              D
Street girls hop from foot to foot, trying to keep warm
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Trying to pay down a few bills before the next big storm
                                     D
On a corner, trembling in the wind, amazed at the mess they're in
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Wipin' their noses on their sleeve it's hard to believe

                                                D
I swore I'd leave the day they knocked that old smokestack down
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There's a guy I need to talk to before I quit this town
                                          D
Drivin' past the prison yard still got my old Teamsters card
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Still hopin' on my reprieve it's hard to believe

Bridge:
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When I looked into her smiling eyes I saw a dream so fine
          E                                   A
Like the Spirit of Chicago on a lonesome old railroad line
              D                             F#m
I would have gone with her that day I just watched her as she drove away
         E                                    A
I guess one of us had to leave it's hard to believe

Solo
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A                                     D
Here comes another blown up kid from over there
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Making the whole world safe for the millionaires
                                D
Same old swindle hides behind a fresh new coat of lies
        E                                  A
This is no time to be naive it's hard to believe

       A                                       D
We got old time bars still standing on downtown city streets
E                                           A
  Old ladies serving drinks inside with no color in their cheeks
A                                   D
Listening to a Haggard song you can put your old blue collar on

       F#m              E                  D
It's another New Years Eve it's hard to believe
                A             A
It's hard to believe