Chords used:
C5  F5  A5

Intro:
(mute the strings and strum the rhythm )
C5  F5
C5  F5

C5                                                F5
We walk up the paths of the banks of the mighty Susquehanna
         C5
With our feet made muddy by your tributaries
      F5
That trickle their way to the Chesapeake
             A5
It's like we follow I-83 down to the harbor cities
C5
Strip malls and the tar-mac
A5
People swirling and teaming
C5
It seemed so exciting, but now it seems like such a blight

C5  F5

C5  F5

C5                             F5
I grew up near Kentucky's Mt. Zion Road
C5                                   F5
All that was there was some old cemetary
         A5                                           C5
I wanted nothing more than to be able to walk to the store
    A5
Now I don't live there but there's too many stores
     C5
Some apartments and a Sunoco

           C5                           F5
And I wonder what did they do with the bodies?
           C5                           F5
And I wonder what did they do with the bodies?

C5
Oh!
F5
Susquehanna (x4)

C5  F5

C5  F5


      C5
And I miss that place behind my house where I
F5
Hiked and climbed and played
          C5
Where I'd ditch this noisy century or just
F5
Hid out from the decade
    A5                                    C5
M-I homes thought it could stand to be updated
                 A5                                     C5
Forced it all into a grid until it looks like the funny pages
C5                                        F5
With every trace of light that seems confined within a frame
    C5                                  F5
The faces move from day to day but the strips all look the same
        A5                             C5
And the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny
                  A5                              C5
For those trapped in this architecture of easy money
      C5                             F5
And I feel like this all come to no good
              C5                               F5
This kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood
              A5                     C5
Beneath their cookie-cutter houses, fields and streams and woods
               A5
They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them
C5
Out of this boring neighborhood

C5
Oh!
F5
Susquehanna (x4)

          C5                               F5
And I wonder, what did they do with the bodies? (x2)
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