[Intro]
E A C#m A
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E A C#m A
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[Verse I]
E
Quarter in a payphone, drying laundry on the line
D
Watching sun tea in the window
A
Pocket watch for telling time
E
Seems like only yesterday I'd get a blank cassette
D
Record the Country Countdown
A
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet
[Instrumental]
E Esus4
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[Verse II]
E
If we drove all the way to Dallas
Just to buy an Easter dress
D
We'd take along a Rand McNally
A
Stand in line to pay for gas
E
God knows that shifting gears
Ain't what it used to be
D
I learned to drive that '55
A
Just like a Queen three on the trip
[Chorus]
E A
Hey whatever happened to
C#m
Waiting your turn
A
Doing it all by hand
E A
'Cos when everything is handed to you
C#m A
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
D A
It all just seems so good the way we had it
D A E A C#m A
Back before everything became, Automatic............
[Verse III]
E
If you had something to say
You'd write in on a piece of paper
D
And you'd put a stamp on it
A
And they'd get it three days later
E
Boys would call the girls
And girls would turn them down
D
Staying married was the only way
A
To work your problems out
[Chorus]
E A
Hey whatever happened to
C#m
Waiting your turn
A
Doing it all by hand
E A
'Cos when everything is handed to you
C#m A
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
D A
It all just seems so good the way we had it
D A E A C#m A
Back before everything became, Automatic............
E A C#m A
Automatic
E
Lets's roll the windows down
Windows with the cranks
D
Come on let's take a picture
A (pause)
The kind you gotta shake..........
E A
Hey whatever happened to
C#m
Waiting your turn
A
Doing it all by hand
E A
'Cos when everything is handed to you
C#m A
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
D A
It all just seems so good the way we had it
D A E A C#m A
Back before everything became, Automatic............
E A C#m A
Automatic.............
