Kathy Mattea – Record Time 33 45 78 (Guitar)

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written by Steve Key Performed by Kathy Mattea on "Lonesome Standard Time"
G
I'm spinning like an old turntable

C      Em            D
Three speeds, going nowhere fast

   G
I hesitate at the door to the future

C       Em        D
Holding on to my bittersweet past

Em      D          G
Me and all of the percolators

Em      D          G
Me and all of the rotary phones

Em      D         G
Me and all of my vinyl records

C           Em           Am
Warped and scratched and out of date

C   Em  D G
33, 45, 78

G
I got friends from the old hometown

C           Em          D
We used to work at the hometown news

G
They got houses in a couple of cities

C          Em            D
I'm still singing those hometown blues

Em      D          G
Me and all of the drive-in movies

Em      D          G
Me and all of the afternoon papers

Em          D         G
Me and the free-form radio

C      Em      Am
Fading in and out of date --

C   Em  D G
33, 45, 78
Em D
G                                            Em
I hear talk about a great depression

             D          G            Em 
I hear the drums of the war machine

            D    G
I wonder if I'm stuck in the past

         Am                 D
Or if it all repeats, just like a CD

G
I'm following the railroad line

C       Em           D
Another job in an - other town

G
I skip around in record time

    C          Em          D
And try not to notice the candle burn down

Em     D           G
Me and all of the Rust Belt workers

Em      D         G
Me and all of the hot type printers

Em      D          G
Me and all of the family farms

C          Em     Am
Auctioned off and out of date --

C   Em  D G
33, 45, 78

Em D        G           Em
oh-oh, the percolator

   D        G           Em
Oh-oh, the rotary phone

D          G
All of my vinyl records

C           Em           Am
Warped and scratched and out of date --

C   Em  D G
33, 45, 78

C   Em  D G
33, 45, 78