Automatic

[Intro]
B E G#m E 2x


[Verse]
B
Quarter in a payphone

Drying laundry on the line
         A
Watching sun tea in the window
       E
Pocket watch for telling time


[Verse]
B
Seems like only yesterday

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


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

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


[Verse]
    B
God knows that shifting gears

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


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


[Verse]
   B
If you had something to say

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


[Verse]
B
Boys would call the girls

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


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


[Verse]
       B
Lets's roll the windows down

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


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