Small Forever
Recorded by George Birge & Brantley Gilvert
Album: Single (2025)

(Non Capo)

(Intro.)
|(Em) / / / |(C) / / / |(C)

(Verse 1)
I hope it (Em)stays barbed wire fenced (C)in
I hope it (D)stays on the blink and miss it side
I hope them (Em)trucks stay on the river (C)bend
And them buck (D)knife hearts stay in the pines
I hope it stays (Em)know ya by your last name
(C)Nothing but a two-lane
(D)Ten-minute country mile lap
(Em)Just like God painted it, (C)never go changing it
(D)Leave that little dot off the map

(Chorus)
(Em) I hope them Friday night (C)lights stay on
(D) I hope them backroad tires keep burning
(Em) I hope that line out the (C)church stays long
(D) I hope them ole turn rows keep turning
(Em) I hope them red dirt (C)boots, and the red white
And (D)blue stick around just like them red letters                          
(Em) I hope the grass stays (C)green, and the corn grows (D)tall
And this town stays small forever, (Em) (C) (D) tell 'em about it, BG

(Verse 2)
I hope them red (Em)cups stay raised up (C)
Them pretty girls (D)stay riding on the right
Them farm tags (Em)stay on them old trucks (C)
The smoke stays (D)rolling, water tower high, (Em) and God knows I

(Chorus)
(Em) I hope them Friday night (C)lights stay on
(D) I hope them backroad tires keep burning
(Em) I hope that line out the (C)church stays long
(D) I hope them ole turn rows keep turning
(Em) I hope them red dirt (C)boots
And the red white, and (D)blue stick around just like them red letters
(Em) I hope the grass stays (C)green, and the corn grows (D)tall
And this town stays small forever
Yeah, (Em) small forever, (C) yeah (D)

(Verse 3)
I hope it stays (Em)know ya by your last name
(Em)Nothing but a two-lane, (D)ten-minute country mile lap
(Em)Just like God painted it, (C)never go changing it
(D)Leave our little dot off your map, yeah

(Chorus)
(Em) I hope them Friday night (C)lights stay on
(D) I hope them backroad tires keep burning
(Em) I hope that line out the (C)church stays long
(D) I hope them ole turn rows keep turning
(Em) I hope them red dirt (C)boots, and the red white
and (D)blue stick around just like them red letters
(Em) I hope the grass stays (C)green, and the corn grows (D)tall
And this town stays (D)small forever

(Outro.)
(Em) Small forever 
(C) Yeah, I hope it stays (D)small forever                            
(Em) I hope the grass stays (C)green, and the corn grows (D)tall
And this town stays small forever (Em) - - - - -