Southland In The Springtime

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{intro} 
 
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Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning 
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Light the bayou with our taillights in the night 
       Em                 C               G  -  Gsus    G 
Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line 
                  C               Am7   D7 
And we never have the money for the flight 
 
VERSE 2: 
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I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel 
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Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans 
     Em              C            G            C/G  
I'm dirty from the diesel fuel, drinking coffee black 
         G                Am7             D7sus   D7 
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean 
 
CHORUS: 
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And there's something about the southland in the springtime 
          G                 B7             Em    C 
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason 
         G                  Gsus/A        G/B          Gsus/C 
Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long 
         Am7             G/B              C     D 
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season 
          Am7            G/B            C     D 
When god made me born a yankee he was teasing 
             Em7                G/B          C             D 
There's no place like home and none more pleasing than the southland 
             G    C/G    C    F/C  C    D    C    G  Gsus   G 
in the springtime 
 
In Georgia, nights are softer than a whisper 
Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand 
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations 
And the peach trees stitched across the land 
There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside 
And warm peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers 
And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky 
With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers 
 
{Repeat chorus, end on last G.} 
 
 
 
INTRO TAB: 
 
 
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- Adam Schneider, [email protected]