John Hiatt – The Music Is Hot (Guitar)

C                                       F
Sheets dance on the line   White as the clouds gone by

G                                       C
Screen door kicking time   As kids melt into the sky

C                                         F
You′re making your moves   Trying just to stay alive

G                     C
And the music is hot

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WSM on your transistor radio

G                                      C
A song about trains  You can hear that whistle blow

C                                            F
Waylon walks the line  Merle's mama tries to tell him so

G
And the music is hot

F
You got a story ′bout twenty miles long

C
You got a tune like a number one song

G
You got the sweat like the shirt off my back

C
You got the heart, let me open it a crack

F
Fiddle and steel takin' you higher

C
Passed cotton fields and telephone wires

G
Out to the church and the gospel choir

C
And you're gone

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Sun going down  You′re scrounging to feed the dog

G                                       C
You′re wearing a dress   You saw in a catalog

C                                             F
The crickets have started  To sing with those old bull frogs

G                      C
And the music is hot

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You tuck in the kids  And think of a nice long bath

G                                     C
You notice your mom   Staring back from a photograph.

C                                             F
And quick as you turn  You're certain you can hear her laugh

G
And the music is hot

F
You got a story ′bout twenty miles long

C
You got a tune like a number one song

G
You got the sweat like the shirt off my back

C
You got the heart, let me open it a crack

F
Fiddle and steel takin' you higher

C
Passed cotton fields and telephone wires

G
Beyond the church and the gospel choir

F
And you′re gone

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Gone, Gone, Gone, oh