CAREFREE COUNTRY DAY
As recorded by Buffalo Springfield
(From the 1968 Album LAST TIME AROUND)
Words & Music by Jim Messina
Trancribed by Slowhand
[Intro]
C A7/C# D C# C A7/C# D C#
[1st Verse]
C A7/C# D7 G7
I get up in the morning with a cock-a-doodle-do,
C A7/C# D7 G7 F
I get myself together if and when I chose.
[Chorus]
F Edim7 Dm7 G Edim7 Ab
I'm just buckin time, without a reason or rhyme,
Ab Gm7 Fm7 C A7 D7
Oh what a wonderful way,
D7 G7 C A7 D7
To spend a carefree country day, oh
D7 G7 C F C A7/C# D C#
I got to have it that way.
[2nd Verse]
C A7/C# D7
I best get all my chores done, got some friends a
G7
Commin' by.
C A7/C# D7 G7
That's part of country livin I’m just trying to get by,
[Chorus]
F Edim7 Dm7 G Edim7 Ab
I'm just buckin time, without a reason or rhyme,
Ab Gm7 Fm7 C A7 D7
Oh what a wonderful way,
D7 G7 C A7 D7
To spend a carefree country day, oh
D7 G7 C F
I got to have it that way.
[Interlude]
F Eb7 Ab7 Eb/Ab G7
C A7/C# D C# C A7/C# D C#
[3rd Verse]
C A7/C# D7 G7
I make myself a livin' off a haulin' on junk,
C A7/C# G7
The wagon that I’m driving came from happy worker’s dump.
[Chorus]
F Edim Dm7 G Edim7 Ab
I'm just buckin time, without a reason or rhyme,
Ab Gm7 Fm7 C A7 D7
Oh what a wonderful way,
D7 G7 C A7 D7
To spend a carefree country day, oh
D7 G7
I got to have it that way.
[Outro]
C A7 D7 G7 x2