SOUTHLAND IN THE SPRINGTIME (Indigo Girls)
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capo at the 2nd fret.
G F C D G F C D
[intro]
G C D
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning
G C D
Light the bayou with our taillights in the night
Em C G
Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line
F C Am7 D7
And we never have the money for the flight
VERSE 2:
G C D
I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel
G C D
Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans
Em C G C
I'm dirty from the diesel fuel, drinking coffee black
G Am7 D7
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean
CHORUS:
G C
And there's something about the southland in the springtime
G B7 Em C
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason
G C G C
Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long
Am7 G C D
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season
Am7 G C D
When God made me born a yankee he was teasing
Em7 G C
There's no place like home and none more pleasing
D G C F D C G
than the southland in the springtime
Verse 3:
G C D
In Georgia, nights are softer than a whisper
G C D
Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand
Em C G C
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations
F C Am7 D7
And the peach trees stitched across the land
Verse 4:
G C D
There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside
G C D
And warm peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers
Em C G C
And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky
F C Am7 D7
With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers
Chorus:
G C
And there's something about the southland in the springtime
G B7 Em C
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason
G C G C
Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long
Am7 G C D
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season
Am7 G C D
When God made me born a yankee he was teasing
Em7 G C
There's no place like home and none more pleasing
D G C F D C G
than the southland in the springtime