Automatic

[Intro]
D G Bm G 2x


[Verse]
D
Quarter in a payphone

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


[Verse]
D
Seems like only yesterday

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


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

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


[Verse]
    D
God knows that shifting gears

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


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


[Verse]
   D
If you had something to say

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


[Verse]
D
Boys would call the girls

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


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


[Verse]
       D
Lets's roll the windows down

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


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