Automatic

capo 5 

Intro: C F Am F x2 

C 
Quarter in a payphone 

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


C 
Seems like only yesterday 

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

C F 

            C 
If we drove all the way to Dallas 

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

    C 
God knows that shifting gears 

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

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

F Am F 

   C 
If you had something to say 

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

C 
Boys would call the girls 

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

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

       C 
Lets's roll the windows down 

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

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

Outro: F Am F C