Billy Strings – John Deere Tractor (Guitar)

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[Intro] D D/C# G/B A [Verse 1]
     D    D/C#  Dsus2/C                            G    Em
Hey, momma,             here’s a letter from your son

        G                       D
Well, I guess, my city days are done.

        C                G               D
And it ain’t been three weeks since you came,

     D    D/C#  Dsus2/C                         G    Em
Hey, momma,             I do remember what you said,

         G                        D
Say your prayers before you go to bed, son,

    C             G               D
And remember city women ain’t the same,
[Chorus]
           C                       G
I’m like a John Deere tractor in a half acre field,

B7                                E               E7
Trying to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel,

      A          D                     A            D
Oh, I wish I was home, Lord, Where the blue grasses grow,

        A             E           A        A7
And the sweet country girls don’t complain.
[Instrumental] D D/C# G/B A [Verse 2]
D         D/C#  Dsus2/C                               G      Em
Hey Momma,              so much perfume I thought I’d drown,

        G                       D
And the Lord didn’t seem to be nowhere around,

      C           G             D
Oh I feel like a flower on the vine

            C
Aw, she was pretty Lord knows

G                               D
Thought that she would bring me joy

    C               G                 D
She laughed and she called me country boy, boy

    C     G               D
and after she had been so kind
[Chorus]
           C                       G
I’m like a John Deere tractor in a half acre field,

B7                                E               E7
Trying to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel,

      A          D                   A            D
Oh, I wish I was home, ma, where the blue grasses grow,

        A          E            A        A7
And the fire light shimmers and shines.
[Outro] D D/C# G/B A D D/C# G/B A ************************************
[Intro run you can use if you wish]
e|------------2---------|
B|------------3---------|
G|------------2---------|
D|----------------------|
A|--3-2-0---0-----------|
E|--------3-------------|
[You can use these runs if you wish after “son” line 7, after “said” line 13, and after “drown” line 34] [Note, these are two different runs and only one should be used at a time]
Run A
e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|----------------------|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
E|--2-3--2-3--1-0-------|

Run B
e|----------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------|
G|--------------0-------------------|
D|---------0-2----------------------|
A|-----0-2--------------------------|
E|--3--------------2-3-2--1-0-------|
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