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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
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