Automatic

[Intro]
F A# Dm A# 2x


[Verse]
F
Quarter in a payphone

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


[Verse]
F
Seems like only yesterday

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


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

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


[Verse]
    F
God knows that shifting gears

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


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


[Verse]
   F
If you had something to say

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


[Verse]
F
Boys would call the girls

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


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


[Verse]
       F
Lets's roll the windows down

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


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