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