Well, after three versions of this song, no one has quite got it spot-on yet. While
Version 2 had the right idea, they failed (as everyone else did) to realize there is a
varied chord progression midway through the verse, as you'll see here.
Chords used:
C F Am
Intro:
(mute the strings and strum the rhythm)
C F
C F
C F
We walk up the paths of the banks of the mighty Susquehanna
C
With our feet made muddy by your tributaries
F
That trickle their way to the Chesapeake
Am
It's like we follow I-83 down to the harbor cities
C
Strip malls and the tar-mac
Am
People swirling and teaming
C
It seemed so exciting, but now it seems like such a blight
C F
C F
C F
I grew up near Kentucky's Mt. Zion Road
C F
All that was there was some old cemetary
Am C
I wanted nothing more than to be able to walk to the store
Am
Now I don't live there but there's too many stores
C
Some apartments and a Sunoco
C F
And I wonder what did they do with the bodies?
C F
And I wonder what did they do with the bodies?
C
Oh!
F
Susquehanna (x4)
C F
C F
C
And I miss that place behind my house where I
F
Hiked and climbed and played
C
Where I'd ditch this noisy century or just
F
Hid out from the decade
Am C
M-I homes thought it could stand to be updated
Am C
Forced it all into a grid until it looks like the funny pages
C F
With every trace of light that seems confined within a frame
C F
The faces move from day to day but the strips all look the same
Am C
And the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny
Am C
For those trapped in this architecture of easy money
C F
And I feel like this all come to no good
C F
This kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood
Am C
Beneath their cookie-cutter houses, fields and streams and woods
Am
They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them
C
Out of this boring neighborhood
C
Oh!
F
Susquehanna (x4)
C F
And I wonder, what did they do with the bodies? (x2)
