Automatic

[Intro]
C# F# A#m F# 2x


[Verse]
C#
Quarter in a payphone

Drying laundry on the line
         B
Watching sun tea in the window
       F#
Pocket watch for telling time


[Verse]
C#
Seems like only yesterday

I'd get a blank cassette
   B
Record the Country Countdown
       F#              \    C#  F#
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet


[Verse]
            C#
If we drove all the way to Dallas

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


[Verse]
    C#
God knows that shifting gears

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


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


[Verse]
   C#
If you had something to say

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


[Verse]
C#
Boys would call the girls

And girls would turn them down
        B
Staying married was the only way
   F#
To work your problems out


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


[Verse]
       C#
Lets's roll the windows down

Windows with the cranks
     B
Come on let's take a picture
          F#~
The kind you gotta shake


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