Drive In Movies

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From: Erik Karlson 

 

Drive in Movies and Dashboard Lights
Words and music by Nanci Griffith
As performed on her album "Storms"
Note: this is as Nanci spelled things on the album...no flames about
my spelling of the word "cuz"!!! :)



 F               
 Bb
Sister had a crystal voice
             
 F                
 Bb
She played a Silvertone from Montgomery Ward

 F              
 Bb
Baez songs and Monroe hair
     
 F                         
 Bb
She sure could turn the boy's heads to stare
  
 Am               
 Dm
Swim wear saunter, tan and haunt them
        
 Bb                 
 C
That's all she learned in school

 Am                  
 Dm
Books were for the other girls
          
 Bb               
 C
And the other girls were fools

 Bb              
 C
Texas back in '69
      
 Dm       
 C             
 Bb
Was drive-in movies and dashboard lights



 F                    
 Bb
Father waltzed her down the aisle
     
 F              
 Bb
Cuz college didn't suit her style

 F                        
 Bb
Sad truth was she could barely read
            
 F                         
 Bb
But if you told poor father, well he wouldn't believe you
      
 Am                  
 Dm
The telephone rang drove Mother insane
          
 Bb                 
 C
With the hearts left on the shelf
    
 Am                  
 Dm
Sister's gone and she won't be home
          
 Bb                 
 C
Cuz she never took care of herself

 Bb            
 C
Texas back in '69
      
 Dm       
 C              
 Bb
Was drive in movies and dashboard lights


Chorus:

 Bb            
 C
Where is she now?
     
 F        
 C        
 Dm           
 C
The backseat queen of fraternity

 Bb           
 C
Where is she now?
       
 F        
 C        
 Dm           
 C
She's heavy of thigh and light on integrity

 Bb                   
 C
Someone should have told her
        
 F     
 C          
 Dm
When beauty's all you offer
     
 Bb             
 C                           
 F       
 Bb
Too soon the world discovers that your bueaty's gone

 F               
 Bb
(it's gone)



 F                          
 Bb
Mother can't you hear your daughter crying

 F                   
 Bb
Father wake up her youth is dying
    
 F                          
 Bb
Her kids are grown...husband's gone away
        
 F                       
 Bb
It's a shame cuz she had such a lovely face

 Am                  
 Dm
Can't you see she needed more
      
 Bb                 
 C
Than "Oh, what a pretty child!"

 Am                    
 Dm
You never taught her truth from lie
        
 Bb                
 C
All you told her was to smile

 Bb              
 C
Texas back in '69
      
 Dm       
 C            
 Bb
Was drive in movies and dashboard lights


Chorus


transcribed by Erik Karlsson
Stabnste@phoenix.phoenix.net