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A couple guys in first class on a flight from New York to Los
Bm Angeles.
Kind of making small talk, killing time, flirting with the flight
G attendants.
30,000 feet
Am above could be Oklahoma.
G Just a bunch of square cornfields and wheat farms, man, it all looks
Bm the same.
Miles and miles of back roads and highways connecting little towns with funny
C names.
Who'd want to live down
Am there, in the
D middle of nowhere.
They've
Em never drove through
C Indiana _ .
Bet the man
G who plowed that earth planted that
D seed.
Busted his
B ass for you and me.
Em You're gonna harvest moon
C in Kansas.
They'd
D understand why God made those
C flyover states.
G I bet that mile-long Santa Fe freight train engineer's
Bm seen it all.
Slut like that flat-bed cowboy stacking U.
S.
steel on a three
G-day haul.
C Roads and rails under their
Am feet, yeah, that sounds
D like a first-class seat.
Em On the plains of _
C Oklahoma.
With a
G windshield sunset in your eyes
D like a water-color
B painted sky, you
Em think.
Heaven's doors
C have opened.
You'll
D understand why God made those
C flyover states.
Em _ _ _ _
C _ _ .
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G _ _ _ _
D _ _ .
B _
Em Take a ride across
C the Badlands.
_
G Feel that freedom on your face.
D Breathe in all
B that open space.
Em Meet a girl from Melbourne,
C real love.
You'll
D understand why God made.
Might even
C want to plant your seeds.
In those
G flyover _ _ _ states.
Em Have _ _ _
C _ _ .
_ _
G _ _ _ _
D _ _ .
_
Em you ever been through _
C Indiana.
_ _
G _ _ _ _
D _ _ .
B On
Em the plains of
C Oklahoma.
Take
G _ _ _ _ _
D _ _ .
_
Em a ride.
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