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Heartland Feelings

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Heartland Feelings

	  		Spoken Word Intro:
What we're talking about here is kind of a...it's a...Heartland Feeling.
Mellencamp, you know, kind of a Mellen-feeling.
Ok. What you gotta get together is a Heartland folk singer:
John Couger Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seeger;
That type of feeling: a Mellen-feeling.
You know, a real powerful, approving music
Of a Heartland quality, just powerful straight-forward music.
And if you can't get just the right type of feeling
Find someone who will pass and change them.
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Old Man Johnson got his head in his hand
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Makin' his way across state in a fiddlin' band
               Am
With his hair all down in his eyes
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And the microphone all covered with flies.
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When he gets done playin' goes back to his room
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Climbs into bed in his cowboy boots
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And he picks up a magazine turns on the TV
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Lights a cigar as he's fallin' asleep.
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Well he's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
              F              C      Am(let ring)
Yeah nothing happenin'...that's about it.
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Yeah......

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Well, little Rosanna came from Texarkana
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Had fourteen dollars wrapped in a bandana.
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Came into town not lookin' for much
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Well she found a hound dog and she named him "Dutch."
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She got a job at the arcade takin' quarters
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But she was never too good at takin' orders
           Am
So one night she stopped givin' out change
        C
She kicked the boss in the chin and unplugged the games.
         F              C       Am
She's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
F           C             Am(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...That's about it.
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Ooh, ooh.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Sam got canned at the cannery
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He punched out the clock that night.
    Am
His knuckle was bleeding as he walked home,
            C
He was cold and he had a headache.
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Well his wife was cookin' canned beans,
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He took out all the money out of his jeans
              Am
And he set it on fire in the kitchen sink
           C
As his wife handed him a drink.
        F                 C       Am
He was only a person...who didn't know shit.
  F          C           Am(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...that's about it.
        C
Uh, yeah, oh.  Wooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...

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Smiley was lookin' for handouts
Sleepin' in a abandoned lighthouse.
Am
Down at the mini-mall shakin' his hat
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Washin' windows with his bare hand.
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He found a sports car with the keys
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In the ignition it just seemed so easy.
  Am
He took a joyride drove into a hedge
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Came out with the steering wheel wrapped around his head.
          F               C           Am
Well he's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
F               C        Am(let ring)
Nothin' happenin'...that's about it.
C
Ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah.

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Well Jane was born in a small town
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Everybody just standing around.
                 Am
They had bingo games and a raffle,
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Everybody chewin' tobacco.
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Well she grew up kinda restless
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All her boyfriends wanted to be dentists(dead-ass?).
     Am
And she got a job at the truck stop
                   C
And she got all fast and never did what she wanted
               F             C         Am
And she's only a person...who doesn't know shit.
    F              C        Am(let ring)
Nothing happenin'...that's about it.
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Yeah, yeah, yo...
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Oh yeah...oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.
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Woo, ooh, ooh....
		  

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