[Intro] C G C G C G Em D C G C G C G Em D G [Verse 1] G You could shoot off a cannon G C G Down the middle of bond C G Em D And attract no attention in downtown st. john's G C G This getting nowhere is getting to me C G Wondering where can you go C G To be all you can be [Verse 2] G C G No regular joe wants to Haul up and go C G And wind up homesick G Em D Where there's no one you know G Just a smoke and a beer G C G And the sports on tv G C G Feelin’ sorry you left G C G With no choice but to leave [Chorus] C G No change in the weather C G No change in me C G I don't want to leave G Em D But you can't live for free G C Can't eat the air, can't drink the sea C G No change in the weather Em D G No change in me [Interlude] C G C G C G Em D C G C G C G Em D G [Verse 3] G You could shoot off a cannon G C G From the top of long's hill G C G D And a gulliver's taxi might be all you'd kill G We were promised the sun G C G And the moon and the stars G C G C We got weathered old clapboard and salt-rusted cars [Verse 4] G C G So let me join in the leaving, with all of the rest G C G Em D For Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver west G Lay down on a sidewalk C G and Kick off and die G C G watchin’ people not lookin' D G As they hurry by [Final chorus] C G No change in the weather C G No change in me C G I don't want to leave G Em D But you can't live for free G C Can't eat the air, can't drink the sea C G No change in the weather Em D G No change in me C G No change in me C G I don't want to leave G Em D But you can't live for free D Down here, you can live for free G C Can't eat the air, can't drink the sea C G No change in the weather Em D G No change in me [Outro] C G C G C G Em D G C G