Heavy Metal chords by Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Some days I think
this old machine is out to get me
G 
D 
Em 
Someday she does what I tell her
It's like dancing with a widowmaker
Forty hours a week
G 
You know I'm talking about
B 
a big old D -10 Caterpillar
G 
D 
I don't know why I like
C 
G 
to drive them like I do
D 
Em 
You know it ain't nothing but a hundred and
D 
A 
Em 
seventy -five thousand pounds of steel
G 
D 
Could be the money big
C 
G 
Could be the power
C 
B 
Could be I love the way it feels
Em 
B 
Em 
Could be I love the way it feels
But you know she's mighty unforgiving
So you got to pay attention
G 
D 
Em 
You know a D -10 can be the devil you
But I get all fired up
And I can feel it in my soul
G 
You know it's hard to
B 
tell who's driving who
Em 
I can move Alaska all the way to Beirut
G 
I can bulldoze a beeline from here to Peru
A 
I can push the Rocky
Mountains into the sea
B 
Heavy metal don't mean rock and
Em 
G 
D 
Em 
G 
D 
roll to me
Em 
but you know I'm like a modern
-day mule skinner
I'm driving 10 ,000 mules
G 
D 
so I gotta say a little prayer every day
Em 
oh just let me get her turned around
falling down this mountain
G 
because you know the boss don't
B 
like me treating this D  -10 that way
G 
D 
I don't know why I like
C 
Cm 
G 
a -drivin' like I do
Em 
You know it ain't nothin'
D 
Em 
but 175 ,000 pounds of steel
G 
D 
Could be the money, babe
C 
G 
Could be the power
C 
B 
Could be our love the way it feels
Em 
B 
Em 
Could be our love the way it feels
B 
Could be I love the way it feels,
Em 
B 
Em 
Could be I love the way it feels.
taking requests here
I hear all right
I've picked out one there
I'll do that