Automatic

[Intro]
G C Em C 2x


[Verse]
G
Quarter in a payphone

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


[Verse]
G
Seems like only yesterday

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


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

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


[Verse]
    G
God knows that shifting gears

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


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


[Verse]
   G
If you had something to say

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


[Verse]
G
Boys would call the girls

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


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


[Verse]
       G
Lets's roll the windows down

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


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