Chords for James McMurtry - Levelland

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_ _ _ _ _ Flatter than a _ tabletop, [F] _ makes you wonder why they [C] stopped here.
_ Wagon [Am] must have lost a wheel or they [G] lacked ambition.
[F] _ _ _ [C] In _ the great migration west, [F] _ _
separated from [C] the rest.
Though they might [Am] have tried their best, [G] they [C] never caught the [Am] sun.
_ So [G] they sunk some roots down in this dirt, [F] to keep from blowing [Am] off air.
[G] They built a town right here, and [F] when the dust had all [G] but cleared,
they called [C] it Level Land. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] Right now, _ [G] _ _ _ [C] it's Level Land.
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Granddad grew dry land wheat, [F] _ _
stood on his own [C] two feet.
_ His mind [Am] got incomplete and [F] they [C] put him in the hole.
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ Daddy's cotton grows so high, [F] _ sucks the water [Am] table [G] dry.
[C] His rolling [Am] sprinkler's circled by, [F] bleeding it to the bone.
[C] _ _ [G] And I won't be here when there comes a [Em] day, [F] it [Am] all dries up [F] and blows away.
[G] I'd hang around just to see, but [F] they never had [G] much use for me [C] in Level Land.
_ _ _ They [Am] don't understand _ [G] me out [C] in Level Land.
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_ [G] _ _ And [F] I watch those jet [Am] trails coming up [G] that big blue [C] sky.
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Coaster, coasters, watch them [G] go. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Now don't blame [C] them one damn bit, [G] if they never looked [C] down on us.
_ _ [F] _ Not much [Am] down here they'd want to [G] know. _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Just Level Land.
As far as [F] you can point your [Am] hand, [G] _ _ nothing [C] but Level Land.
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_ _ _ Mama [C] _ _ _
used to roll her hair, _ _ back before the central air.
_ We'd sit [Am] outside and watch [F] the stars at night.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ She'd tell me to make a wish, _ [F] _ _
that wish we both [C] could fly. _ _
Don't [Am] think she's seen the sky, [F] _ _ [C]
since we [G] got the satellite [C] dish.
And I can hear the marching band, [F] _ _
doing the best they can to [C] play.
Smoke on the water, _ [F] _ _
joy to the [C] world.
I've _ played up all my decks, [F] _ got some change left over.
Yet [C] I'm getting [Am] on a whisper jet.
[F] Gonna fly as [G] far as I [C] can get in Level Land.
_ _ _ _ [Am] The best I can [G] _ _ _ [C] out in Level Land.
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