Chords for Nanci Griffith -New Country Gettin' Tough 1987

Sigg Griffith, a former nursery school teacher, [A] who found it easier to handle the good old boys in the Texan [D] honky-tonks than a classroom of under-fives. _ _ _ _
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[D] a classroom of under-fives than a classroom of under-fives
than a classroom of under-fives than a classroom of under-fives
_ _ I got a lot [G] to [Em] remember
_ [A] _ I'm in a Lone Star [D] State of Mind
_ _ I got a lot [G] to remember
_ [A] _ I'm in a Lone Star [D] State of Mind
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[A] _ _ _ [D] This is my fifth album, Lone Star State of Mind
This is my fifth album, Lone Star State of Mind
So I've certainly been out traveling [Bm] America with my music for many, many years
[A] And I just think that the new country, [D] this is new because it's new on the radio
Prior to this, my market was always in [Em] college radio stations
and always did well there, but [G] commercial radio didn't have any time for me
and now they do, and Steve Earle the same way
So it's a new beginning kind of for me
I've always called my music folkabilly because I feel like it's a great blend of
you take a little bit of Woody Guthrie and you take a whole lot of Loretta Lynn
who I consider to be the real voice of women's country music
She brought country music out of the Dark Ages for women
And you put those two things together, folk and country
and come up with the folkabilly sound
A little bit of hillbilly, a little bit of folk
To me, [F#] I don't think it's ever going to have a real [B] mass audience
But if it does, _ [C#] I've done my job as a writer
I'm a writer [A#m] person, and [B] giving those little [F#] stories to people
that mean [F#] something to them is all that matters [C#] to me _
[F#] From a distance, the world [C#] looks blue and [F#] green
[B] And the snow can't [C#] melt [F#] down
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[F#] From a distance, [B] the ocean [C#] meets [F#] the stream
And [F#] the [C#] eagle doesn't hate [F#] the dune
_ _ _ From [B] a distance, [C#] there is harmony _
[D#m] _ And [B] it echoes through the [C#] _ land
_ And it's the voice [F#] of hope
It's the voice of peace
It's [D#] the voice [C#] of everyone _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [F#] Both you and Lyle Lovett are from Texas
[D#] What's special about the [D] Lone Star State, do you think, [G] in your musical makeup?
Well, I think we've had a lot of influences from Texas
I know that there are so many musicians who've come out of Texas
But Chancock, Jimmy Gilmore, very special
They're from West Texas, Lyle's from East Texas
Which gets you more into the South and Southern attitudes
And I'm from [G] Central West
And Texas has not a whole lot to look at
So I think you learn from a very early age on
that you have to use your imagination or go crazy
So creativity is abundant there
Buddy Holly came from Lubbock
_ I just think there are a lot of us who have gone into music and gone into the arts
Do you mean it's a boring place?
Well, I didn't want to say that, but it is sort of a boring place, Texas is
There's really not a whole lot to do there
I hear a lot from Texans about getting into a Lone Star state of mind
Can you explain to me how you go about that?
Well, I think the easiest way to do it is to go out
and get yourself a six-pack of Lone Star beer
or whatever kind of beer you can find This one?
_ _ Guinness, whatever you can find, go out and buy some
Guinness?
In Texas? _
Some pinto beans, some chewing tobacco
Sit out on the front porch and have yourself a time
Well, let's set off in this thing and find a six-pack
Alright
You have _ _ _ to turn the key, Nancy
No, I can't do that, where is it?
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_ _ _ _ San Diego freeway doing 60 miles an [A] hour
[D] She had a husband on her boat
She had five restless children
She was singing as sweet as a market bird
In that [A] 40-car-an-hour [D] line
She's a [G] soul-tubber
[D] She escaped from the bosom of the Mormon church
And that boy is lying, [A] cruising along
[G] In that 40-car-an-hour line
[D] Her husband was a hagin
He was a solid-a-wren
And he built a golden cage around his silver [A]-throated wife
[D] Coming in as he left the grass
With his feet in the mud and his flack
But his big mistake was in buying her
[A] That 40-car [D]-an-hour line
[G] She's a soul [D]-tubber
She [A] escaped from the bosom of [D] the Mormon church
[G] And that boy is _ [D] lying, [A] cruising along
In that [G] 40-car-an-hour line
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[D]-tubber
She escaped from the bosom of the Mormon [G] church
And that boy is [D] lying, [A] cruising along
[G] In that 40-car-an-hour line
_ [D] Now she's singing some songs around there
From Seattle to Montana
And those kids are grown and that around there knows
You [C] cannot change your [A] wife
Along the [D] back roads of our neighbor
She's a common-livin' lady
She drives a coupe, a billboard, hot rods
Viewin' that 40 [D]-car-an-hour line
She drives a coupe, a billboard, hot rods
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