I'm English and struggle to understand the accent sometimes, so I'm expecting there to
be a few lyric mistakes in here! I'll correct them as soon as I know what they are!
Capo 5
Intro: C F Am F x2
C
Quarter in a payphone
Drying laundry on the line
Bb
Watching sun tea in the window
F
Pocket watch for telling time
C
Seems like only yesterday
I'd get a blank cassette
Bb
Record the Country Countdown
F
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet
CFC
If we drove all the way to Dallas
Just to buy an Easter dress
Bb
We'd take along a Rand McNally
F
Stand in line to pay for gas
C
God knows that shifting gears
Ain't what it used to be
Bb
I learned to drive that '55
F
Just like a Queen three on the trip
CF
Hey whatever happened to
Am
Waiting your turn
F
Doing it all by hand
CF
'Cos when everything is handed to you
AmF
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
BbF
It all just seems so good the way we had it
BbFC
Back before everything became, Automatic
FAFC
If you had something to say
You'd write in on a piece of paper
Bb
And you'd put a stamp on it
F
And they'd get it three days later
C
Boys would call the girls
And girls would turn them down
Bb
Staying married was the only way
F
To work your problems out
CF
Hey whatever happened to
Am
Waiting your turn
F
Doing it all by hand
CF
'Cos when everything is handed to you
AmF
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
BbF
It all just seems so good the way we had it
BFFAmF
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
CFm
Automatic
C
Lets's roll the windows down
Windows with the cranks
Bb
Come on let's take a picture
F
The kind you gotta shake
CF
Hey whatever happened to
Am
Waiting your turn
F
Doing it all by hand
CF
'Cos when everything is handed to you
AmF
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
BbF
It all just seems so good the way we had it
BFFAmF
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
C
Automatic
Outro: F Am F C