IOWA chords by Aoife O'Donovan

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Verse 1
C 
F 
I am waiting for this book to get good
Am 
I do not have your patience
C 
F 
C 
So I'm driving up
Am 
F 
to Chicago
Am 
I'm getting weird looks at
C 
F 
C 
gas stations
Am 
F 
I did not bring a winter coat
Am 
C 
F 
C 
I do not have your foresight
F 
A holistic practitioner told me once
Am 
C 
F 
C 
It's why I will not live a long life

Verse 2

I am trying to remember where I gave up

If it was not in Iowa

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Verse 3

Iowa

Somewhere in the middle of the middle

of the Great Plains I saw

A little girl waving her hand out

of the window of a car

Saying goodbye to her ma

Verse 4
G 
Iowa
Am 
Where the tall grass prairie used to ripple
F 
C 
like the ocean in the breeze
G 
C 
And the hummingbirds still suckled
Bb 
Am 
from the flowers in the trees
C 
F 
It'd bring you to your knees

Verse 5
C 
F 
I can imagine my whole life
Am 
C 
F 
C 
Sweet and never- ending
F 
In every house I float by
Am 
But they'd never let me
C 
F 
C 
blend in
Am 
F 
I called a taxi in Des Moines
Am 
C 
F 
C 
I met him at the corner
Am 
F 
When I asked about his army coat
Am 
He said he would not tell a foreigner
C 

Verse 6
F 
C 
G 
Iowa
Am 
Somewhere in the middle of the middle
F 
C 
of the Great Plains I saw
Em 
G 
C 
A little girl waving her hand out
Bb 
Am 
of the window of a car
C 
F 
Saying goodbye to her ma

Verse 7
G 
Iowa
Am 
Where the tall grass prairie used to ripple
F 
C 
like the ocean in the breeze
G 
C 
And the hummingbirds still suckled
Bb 
Am 
from the flowers in the trees
C 
F 
It'd bring you to your knees

Verse 8

Ooh

Verse 9
F 
I am waiting for this book to get good
Am 
And you won't meet me
C 
F 
C 
halfway
Am 
F 
So I'm driving up to Chicago
Am 
I am sorry to keep you waiting
C 
F 
C 