Automatic

[Intro]
D# G# Cm 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
             Cm
Waiting your turn
         G#
Doing it all by hand
          D#          
  'Cos when everything
              G#
is handed to you
          Cm           
  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#  Cm  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
             Cm
Waiting your turn
         G#
Doing it all by hand
          D#          
  'Cos when everything
              G#
is handed to you
          Cm           
  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#       Cm  G#
automatic, yeah
    D#   G#  Cm  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
             Cm
Waiting your turn
         G#
Doing it all by hand
          D#          
  'Cos when everything
              G#
is handed to you
          Cm           
  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#     Cm  G#
automatic, yeah
    D#   G#  Cm  G#     D#~
Automatic