Caroline Herring - Learning To Drive
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: G C Em D G
C
Pretty girl from a Delta town
Em
Made to run the gasoline down
Learned a little 'bout many things
D G
Our sweet potato, cotton queen
C
Looks ahead when the whistles blow
Em
A lady knows when it's time to go
Learned to drive on the graveyard streets
D G
And give a smile to all she meets
INTERLUDE: G C Em D G
Daddy taught her to never look twice
C Em
Say, 'Thank you ma'am' and always look nice
D
Be the best like a football team
G
Scoring against the rivalry, and
C
Keep the insides hammered down
Best performer of the stage in town
Em
A speck surrounded by soybean fields
D G
In the land of red clay wheels
INTERLUDE: G C Em D G
They say she'd tumble over the pews, and
C Em
Go sit with the preacher, too
Play flute from the choir loft
D G
Sing alto and soprano parts
And gaze out at the back church wall
C Em
Stained-glass Jesus standing tall
D
Holding all of his little lambs
G
And the whole world in his hands
INSTRUMENTAL: G C Em D G (2x)
The boys eyed her through the rear-view mirror
C Em
Sucking two straws on Strawberry Hill
Coming back from a country bridge
D G
Or throwing rocks from the water's edge
Now she's all packed up in parcelled pillars
C
She's driving a U-Haul across the Mississippi River
Em D
Lanterns on the levee and a fist full of cotton
G
Old times there will not be forgotten
OUTRO: G C Em D G (3x)