Album: Childish Things
Capo 2nd fret
G C G
Mama keeps tryin? to get the game on the radio
D/F# G
Daddy?s gotta know the score
C G
There?s a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
D/F# G
Wonder what that thing?s for
G C G
We got towels rolled up in the back seat window
D/F# G
Keeping us out of the sun
C G
Just a hundred more miles and we?ll be at grand ma?s
D/F# G
Sure is gonna be fun
G C G
Maybe she?ll take us fish in?
D/F# G
Maybe she?ll bake us a pie
C G
Remember like she did that one time
D/F# G
Back before grandpa died
C G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F# G
Everybody?s on the road
C G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F# G
Y?all be sure and drive slow
G C G
Ninety eight degrees in the shade of the tool shed
D/F# G
Can?t go back in the house
C G
They?re all in the kitchen yellin? ?bout some thing
D/F# G
Don?t know what it?s about
G C G
Joey ?n Mary said not to worry
D/F# G
Said it?s just the same old fight
C G
Happens whenever they all get together
D/F# G
Everything?s really alright
C G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F# G
This is how it?s supposed to be
C G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F# G
In the land of the free
G C G
Daddy?s in the big chair sippin? on a cold beer
D/F# G
Grandma?s cuttin? a switch
C G
She overheard Mary cussin? her brother
D/F# G
Called him a son of a b***h
C G
She got a good green limb off a sweet gum sapling
D/F# G
Man that?s bound to sting
C G
But Mary don?t cry just stands there and takes it
D/F# G
Doesn?t seem to feel a thing
G C G
No Mary don?t cry, you know she?s a big girl
D/F# G
Wonder what made her so mad
C G
She takes those licks looking in through the den door
D/F# G
Staring right straight at her dad
Fiddle solo..
G C G
There?s a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
D/F# G
Daddy nearly hit that bird
They?re both in the front seat
C G
Starin? right straight ahead
D/F# G
Neither one saying a word
G C G
The sun?s going down in the rear view mirror
D/F# G
Gonna be driving all night
C G
Wonder if the neighbor?s fed the canary
D/F# G
Wonder if the cat?s alright
C G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F# G
Everybody?s on the road
C G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F# G
Y?all be sure and drive slow
C G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F# G
This is how it?s supposed to be
C G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F# G
In the land of the free