Chord/Tab song: Learning to Drive

CAPO: 4th Fret


INTRO: G C Em D G

Pretty girl from a Delta town[C]
Made to run the gasoline down[Em]

Learned a little 'bout many things
Our [D]sweet potato, cotton queen[G]

Looks ahead when the whistles blow[C]
A lady knows when it's time to go[Em]

Learned to drive on the graveyard streets
And [D]give a smile to all she [G]meets

INTERLUDE: G C Em D G


Daddy taught her to never look twice
[C]Say, 'Thank you ma'am' and always look nice[Em]
Be the best like a football team[D]
Scoring against the rivalry, and[G]

Keep the insides hammered down[C]
Best performer of the stage in town
A [Em]speck surrounded by soybean fields
[D]In the land of red clay [G]wheels

INTERLUDE: G C Em D G


They say she'd tumble over the pews, and
[C]Go sit with the preacher, too[Em]
Play flute from the choir loft
[D]Sing alto and soprano parts[G]


And gaze out at the back church wall
[C]Stained-glass Jesus standing tall[Em]
Holding all of his little lambs[D]
And the whole world in his [G]hands

INSTRUMENTAL: G C Em D G (2x)


The boys eyed her through the rear-view mirror
[C]Sucking two straws on Strawberry Hill[Em]
Coming back from a country bridge
Or [D]throwing rocks from the water's edge[G]


Now she's all packed up in parcelled pillars
She's [C]driving a U-Haul across the Mississippi River
[Em]Lanterns on the levee and a fist full of cotton[D]
Old times there will not be forgot[G]ten

OUTRO: G C Em D G (3x)