Kathy Mattea – Record Time 33 45 78 (Ukulele)

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

F      Dm            G
Three speeds, going nowhere fast

   F
I hesitate at the door to the future

F       Dm        G
Holding on to my bittersweet past

Dm      G          F
Me and all of the percolators

Dm      G          F
Me and all of the rotary phones

Dm      G         F
Me and all of my vinyl records

F           Dm           Dm
Warped and scratched and out of date

F   Dm  G F
33, 45, 78

F
I got friends from the old hometown

F           Dm          G
We used to work at the hometown news

F
They got houses in a couple of cities

F          Dm            G
I'm still singing those hometown blues

Dm      G          F
Me and all of the drive-in movies

Dm      G          F
Me and all of the afternoon papers

Dm          G         F
Me and the free-form radio

F      Dm      Dm
Fading in and out of date --

F   Dm  G F
33, 45, 78
Dm G
F                                            Dm
I hear talk about a great depression

             G          F            Dm 
I hear the drums of the war machine

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

         Dm                 G
Or if it all repeats, just like a CD

F
I'm following the railroad line

F       Dm           G
Another job in an - other town

F
I skip around in record time

    F          Dm          G
And try not to notice the candle burn down

Dm     G           F
Me and all of the Rust Belt workers

Dm      G         F
Me and all of the hot type printers

Dm      G          F
Me and all of the family farms

F          Dm     Dm
Auctioned off and out of date --

F   Dm  G F
33, 45, 78

Dm G        F           Dm
oh-oh, the percolator

   G        F           Dm
Oh-oh, the rotary phone

G          F
All of my vinyl records

F           Dm           Dm
Warped and scratched and out of date --

F   Dm  G F
33, 45, 78

F   Dm  G F
33, 45, 78