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(F)Quar ter in a pay phone, dry in’ laun dry on the line, watch in’ sun tea in the win dow, pock et watch a tell in’ time.
(F)Seems like on ly yes ter day I’d get a blank cas sette, re cord the coun try count down ’cause I (Bb)could n’t buy it yet.
If we drove all the way to Dal las just to buy an Eas ter dress, we’d take a long a Rand Mc Nal ly, stand in line to pay for gas.
God (F)knows that shift in’ gears ain’t what it used to be; I learned to drive that Fif ty five just like a queen, three on a tree.
(F)Hey, what ev er hap pened to
wait in’ your turn,
do in’ it all by hand?
’Cause when ev ’ry thing is hand ed to you,
it’s on ly worth
as much as the time you put in.
It all just seems so good the way we had it
(Eb)back be fore ev ’ry thing be (Bb)came
au to mat (F)ic.
If (F)you had some thin’ to say, you’d write it on a piece of pa per.
Then you’d (Eb)put a stamp on it and they’d (Bb)get it three days lat er.
The (F)boys would call the girls
and girls would turn them down.
Stay in’ (Eb)mar ried was the on ly way to work your prob lems out.
(Bb)came
au to mat ic,
yeah.
Au to mat
ic.
Let’s (F)roll the win dows down,
win dows with the cranks.
Come on, let’s take a pic ture, the kind you got ta shake.
(F)Hey, what ev er hap pened to
wait in’ your turn,
do in’ it all by hand?
’Cause when ev ’ry thing is hand ed to you,
it’s on ly worth
as much as the time you put in.
It all just seems so good the way we had it
(Eb)back be fore ev ’ry thing be (Bb)came
au to mat ic,
yeah.
Au to mat
ic.
This page shows “Automatic” by Miranda Lambert in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of Bb at 100 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.