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
A#
watching sun tea in the window
F
pocket watch for telling time

C
seems like only yesterday

i’d get a blank cassette
A#
record the country countdown
F
’cos i couldn’t buy it yet

C F

C
if we drove all the way to dallas

just to buy an easter dress
A#
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
A#
i learned to drive that ’55
F
just like a queen three on the trip

C F
hey whatever happened to
Am
waiting your turn
F
doing it all by hand
C F
’cos when everything is handed to you
Am F
it’s only worth as much as the time you put in
A# F
it all just seems so good the way we had it
A# F C
back before everything became , automatic

F Am F

C
if you had something to say

you’d write in on a piece of paper
A#
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
A#
staying married was the only way
F
to work your problems out

C F
hey whatever happened to
Am
waiting your turn
F
doing it all by hand
C F
’cos when everything is handed to you
Am F
it’s only worth as much as the time you put in
A# F
it all just seems so good the way we had it
A# F C F
Am F
back before everything became , automatic , yeah
C F Am F
automatic

C
lets’s roll the windows down

windows with the cranks
A#
come on let’s take a picture
F
the kind you gotta shake

C F
hey whatever happened to
Am
waiting your turn
F
doing it all by hand
C F
’cos when everything is handed to you
Am F
it’s only worth as much as the time you put in
A# F
it all just seems so good the way we had it
A# F C F
Am F
back before everything became , automatic , yeah
C
automatic

outro : F Am F C