Written by: Miranda Lambert, Nicolle Galyon and Natalie Hemby.
Standard Tuning.
CAPO ON 5th. (To play without a capo, transpose the chords up five (+5).)
Intro:
C F Am F x 2
C
Quarter in a payphone
Drying laundry on the line
F
Watching Sun tea in the window
Pocket watch for tellin' time
C
Seems like only yesterday, I'd get a blank cassette
F *No Chord*
Record the country countdown, 'cause I couldn't buy it yet
C F
C
If we drove all the way to Dallas
Just to buy a Easter dress
F
We'd take along a Rand McNally, stand in line to pay for gas
C
God knows that shifting gears, ain't what it used to be
F
I learned to drive that 55, just like a Queen, three on a tree
C F Am
Hey, whatever happened to, waiting your turn
F G C F
Doing it all by hand cause when everything is handed to you
Am F
It's only worth as much as the time put in
A# F
In all just seems so good the way we had it
A# F C
Back before everything became, automatic
C F Am F
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C
If you had something to say
You'd write it on a piece of paper
F
Then you put a stamp on it
And they'd get it three days later
C
Boys would call the girls
And the girls would turn them down
F
Staying married was on the way to work your problems out
C F Am
Hey, whatever happened to, waiting your turn
F G C F
Doing it all by hand cause when everything is handed to you
Am F
It's only worth as much as the time put in
A# F
In all just seems so good the way we had it
A# F C
Back before everything became, automatic
C F Am F
C F Am F
Automatic
C
Let's roll the windows down
Windows with the cranks
F
Come on let's take a picture
F *fade out*
The kind they gotta shake
C F Am
Hey, whatever happened to, waiting your turn
F G C F
Doing it all by hand cause when everything is handed to you
Am F
It's only worth as much as the time put in
A# F
In all just seems so good the way we had it
A# F C F Am F
Back before everything became, automatic
C F Am F C *fade out*
Automatic
