Automatic

Intro -x2-: F Bb Dm Bb
 
F
Quarter in a payphone
 
Drying laundry on the line
         D#
Watching sun tea in the window
       Bb
Pocket watch for telling time
 
 
F
Seems like only yesterday
 
I'd get a blank cassette
   D#
Record the Country Countdown
       Bb
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet
 
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            F
If we drove all the way to Dallas
 
Just to buy an Easter dress
            D#
We'd take along a Rand McNally
         Bb
Stand in line to pay for gas
 
 
    F
God knows that shifting gears
 
Ain't what it used to be
             D#
I learned to drive that '55
            Bb
Just like a Queen three on a tree
 
 
F                       Bb
Hey whatever happened to
               Dm
Waiting your turn
           Bb
Doing it all by hand
          F                         Bb
'Cos when everything is handed to you
            Dm                    Bb
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
   D#                                 Bb
It all just seems so good the way we had it
D#                        Bb         F
Back before everything became, Automatic
 
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   F
If you had something to say
 
You'd write in on a piece of paper
          D#
And you'd put a stamp on it
           Bb
And they'd get it three days later
 
 
F
Boys would call the girls
 
And girls would turn them down
        D#
Staying married was the only way
   Bb
To work your problems out
 
 
F                       Bb
Hey whatever happened to
               Dm
Waiting your turn
           Bb
Doing it all by hand
          F                         Bb
'Cos when everything is handed to you
            Dm                    Bb
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
   D#                                 Bb
It all just seems so good the way we had it
D#                        Bb         F       Bb   Dm Bb
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
    F     Bb Dm Bb
Automatic
 
 
       F
Lets's roll the windows down
 
Windows with the cranks
     D#
Come on let's take a picture
    Bb
The kind you gotta shake
 
 
F                       Bb
Hey whatever happened to
               Dm
Waiting your turn
           Bb
Doing it all by hand
          F                         Bb
'Cos when everything is handed to you
            Dm                    Bb
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
   D#                                 Bb
It all just seems so good the way we had it
D#                        Bb         F    Bb     Dm Bb
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
    F
Automatic
 
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