Tonalité : G major
Verse 1
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C
D
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Back in
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nineteen twenty seven
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I had a little farm, I called that Heaven.
G
C
The prices up and the rain come down
D
And I hauled my crops all into town,
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I got the money
C
Bought clothes and groceries
D
Fed the kids and raised a big
G
family.
C
But the rain quit and
Verse 2
the wind got high
D
A black old dust storm filled the sky.
C
I traded my farm for a Ford machine
D
Poured it full of this gasoline
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Started rocking and rolling
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Deserts and mountains to
D
G
California.
C
D
Way up yonder on a mountain road Hot
Verse 3
motor and a heavy load
G
C
Go ing pretty fast I was
n't even stopping
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Bouncing up and down
like popcorn popping
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D
G
I had a breakdown ?
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Kind of a nervous bustdown.
D
The mechanic fellow
there charged me five bucks,
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Said it was engine trouble.
C
Way up yonder on
Verse 4
a mountain curve
D
Way up yonder in the piney wood
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C
I gave that rolling Ford a shove
D
And I coast as far as I could
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Commencing rolling
C
Picking up speed
D
Come a hairpin turn and
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D
G
I didn't make it.
C
D
No man alive I'm telling you That the fiddles
Verse 5
and the guitars really flew.
G
C
That Ford took off like a flying squirrel
D
And it flew halfway around the world
G
Scattered the wives and children
C
D
All over the side of that mountain.
Verse 6
G
C
Got to California so dad gum broke
D
Dad gum hungry that I thought I'd choke.
G
C
I bummed up a spud or two
D
A
D
And a wife fixed up some 'tater stew.
G
We poured the kids full of it
C
Mighty skinny kids
D
A
Looked like a tribe of thermo
D
G
meters running around.
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No man I swear to you That
Verse 7
D
was surely mighty thin stew
G
C
So damn thin I really mean
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A
D
You could read a magazine right through it
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Look at the pictures, too
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D
Pretty whisky bottles an
d naked women.
Always have thought and
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always have figured
D
That if that damn stew had been
just a little bit thinner
Some of these here politicians
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could have seen through it.
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