John Deere Tractor
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DbCapotraste:
4th traste
As recorded by Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Molly Tuttle
(From the 2023 Album A TRIBUTE TO THE JUDDS)
Capo 4th fret
[Intro]
A D/F# E A E/G#
D/F# E A
[Verse 1]
N.C. E E/G#
Hey, Mama
G D D/F# Bm
Well, here's a letter from your son
D A
Well, I think my city days are done
G D A
And it ain't been three weeks since I came
[Verse 2]
A E/G#
Hey, Mama
G A7 D Bm
Well, I do remember what you said
D A
"Say your prayers before you go to bed, son
G D A
And remember city women ain't the same"
[Chorus]
G D
Well, I'm like a John Deere tractor in a half-acre field
F#7 B7
Tryin' to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel
E A E A
Oh, I wish I was home, Ma, where the blue grass is growin'
E
And the sweet country girls don't complain
[Interlude]
A D E A B7
[Verse 3]
E
Hey, Mama
A F#m
So much perfume, I thought I'd drown
A E
And the Lord didn't seem to be nowhere around
D A E
Oh, I felt just like a flower from the vine
[Verse 4]
D A
Well, she was pretty, Lord knows
E
I thought that she would bring me joy
D A E
But she laughed and she called me "country boy," Mom
D A E
And after she had been so kind
[Chorus]
D A
I'm like a John Deere tractor in a half-acre field
C# F#
Tryin' to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel
B E B E
Oh, I wish I was home, Ma, where the blue grass is growin'
B F# B A D
And the fire light shimmers and shines
[Outro]
A D E
Hey, Mama
A E D E
Hey, Mama
A D E A
Hey, Mama
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