Chords for James McMurtry "Levelland"

[C] _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _
[D] _ [C] flatter than a tabletop [F] makes you wonder why they [C] stopped here [Bm] wagon [Am] must have
lost a [C] wheel they lacked ambition one _ then the [Em] great migration [C] west [F] separated
from the [C] rest [G] though they [Am] might have tried their best [F] they never caught the
so [D] this song some [G] roots down in this dirt [C] to keep from blowing off the earth
[G] that built a town right here and [D] when the [G] dust it all the clear they called it
level and [C] _ [F] the pride of [G] man level and [C] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] granddad grew trial and wheat _ [F]
stood on
his own two feet [C] [D] his [Am] mind went incomplete [F] and they put him in [D] the hole
[C] daddy's cotton grows so [F] high sucks the [Am] water [C] table dry [G] his rolling [Am] sprinklers
circle [F] by bleeding it to the bone [G] and I won't be here when it comes a [C] day it all
dries up and blows [G] away I'd hang around just to see [D] but they've never had [Bm] much
use for [C] me and level and they don't understand me [G] how [C] level and _ [G] _ [F] _ _
[G] _ [F] then I
watched those jet [Am] trails carving [G] up that big blue [C] sky [G] _ [F] _ [A] coast to [G] coasters watch
them go _
_ _ [D] not all [A] blame them one [C] damn [G] bit if they never looked down [C] on this not
much [Am] down here they'd want [G] to know _ _ [C] just level and _ [G] far as you can point your hand
[C] nothing but a level man _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _
_ [D] _ [C] _ mama used to roll her [F] hair back before the central
[C] air [G] we'd sit [A] outside and watch the [F] stars at night _ [C] _ she'd tell me to make a
wish [F] I'd wish we both could fly [C] I [G] don't think [Am] she's seen the sky [F]
since we [G] got
the satellite dish [C] and I can hear the marching band [F]
doing [G] the best they can [C] to
[G] smoke [Am] on the water [F] _
joy to the [C] world _ all my debts [C]
got some change left over yet
and [G] I'm getting on a [Am] whisper jet [F] gonna fly as far as [G] I can get [C] from leveling
done the best [F] I can _ [D] [Em] I'm leveling thank _ [F] _
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