Key: G major
Verse 1
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C
D
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Back in 1927
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D
I had a little farm
and I call that heaven
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C
And the prices up and the rain come down
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D
Bought clothes and groceries
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D
Rared back, fed the kids
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D
G
Verse 2
gas- i- line
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And it started
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G
Rocking and a- rolling
the mountains
And away over toward
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D
G
California
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D
G
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Verse 3
G
It was a- way up yonder
popcorn popping
there of some kind or other
A mechanic feller
Charged me thirteen dollars
Said it was engine trouble
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C
D
G
Verse 4
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C
And I give that rolling Ford a shove
as fair as I could
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D
Was a hairpin turn
Verse 5
I didn't make it
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C
Man alive, I'm telling you
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That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
the world
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C
Scattered wives, childrens
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C
All over the side of that mountain
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Verse 6
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And I bummed up a spud or two
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D
We poured the kids full of it
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D
It was a mighty thin stew, though
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Am
C
Always I figured that if that stew
Some of them there politicians
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could've seen through it
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C D Am A
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