Automatic

[Intro]
A D F#m D 2x


[Verse]
A
Quarter in a payphone

Drying laundry on the line
         G
Watching sun tea in the window
       D
Pocket watch for telling time


[Verse]
A
Seems like only yesterday

I'd get a blank cassette
   G
Record the Country Countdown
       D              \    A  D
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet


[Verse]
            A
If we drove all the way to Dallas

Just to buy an Easter dress
            G
We'd take along a Rand McNally
         D
Stand in line to pay for gas


[Verse]
    A
God knows that shifting gears

Ain't what it used to be
             G
I learned to drive that '55
            D
Just like a Queen three on a tree


[Chorus]
A                     D
Hey whatever happened to
             F#m
Waiting your turn
         D
Doing it all by hand
          A          
  'Cos when everything
              D
is handed to you
          F#m           
  It's only worth as much
        D
as the time you put in
   G                 
  It all just seems so
                 D
good the way we had it
G                      
  Back before everything
   D         A     D  F#m  D
became, automatic


[Verse]
   A
If you had something to say

You'd write in on a piece of paper
          G
And you'd put a stamp on it
           D
And they'd get it three days later


[Verse]
A
Boys would call the girls

And girls would turn them down
        G
Staying married was the only way
   D
To work your problems out


[Chorus]
A                     D
Hey whatever happened to
             F#m
Waiting your turn
         D
Doing it all by hand
          A          
  'Cos when everything
              D
is handed to you
          F#m           
  It's only worth as much
        D
as the time you put in
   G                 
  It all just seems so
                 D
good the way we had it
G                        D
Back before everything became,
     A  D       F#m  D
automatic, yeah
    A   D  F#m  D
Automatic


[Verse]
       A
Lets's roll the windows down

Windows with the cranks
     G
Come on let's take a picture
          D~
The kind you gotta shake


[Chorus]
A                     D
Hey whatever happened to
             F#m
Waiting your turn
         D
Doing it all by hand
          A          
  'Cos when everything
              D
is handed to you
          F#m           
  It's only worth as much
        D
as the time you put in
   G                 
  It all just seems so
                 D
good the way we had it
G                        D \
Back before everything became,
     A    D     F#m  D
automatic, yeah
    A   D  F#m  D     A~
Automatic