D                    G 
Downtown?s all closed down 
       A 
They?ve boarded up the windows 
G                    D 
Just like an old ghost town 
D 
The storefronts are empty 
G 
There?s noone around 
A                    D 
Downtown?s all closed down 
 
 
A                          G                   D 
A small town in Texas by the courthouse in the square 
A                                G              D 
The middle of the afternoon and there?s nobody there 
G 
Well I shook my head and wondered 
D 
Where all the businesses had gone 
A 
There used to be everything that you?d ever need now 
G 
Just the bank?s still  
       D 
Holdin? on 
 
Chorus 
 
The old drugstore is vacant 
And the caf??s locked it doors 
The movie marquis is falling down 
There?s no more hardware stores 
So I sat down on a bench 
I watched a car go driving by 
I wondered what had killed downtown  
And how the people could let it die 
 
Chorus 
 
The railroad brought the people here 
Now the interstate draws them away 
It moved the steady business east 
And left these old buildings behind to stay 
But some folks in town remember  
A time not too long ago 
When a film called Casablanca played 
At the town square picture show 
 
Chorus