Southland in the Springtime

Actually in A, so capo at the 2nd fret.

[Each chord is one measure, except chords joined by hyphens are one

measure _total_.]

G F/G C(9) D G F/G C(9) D

intro

G F/G C(9) D

Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning

G F/G C(9) D

Light the bayou with our taillights in the night

Em C G - Gsus G

Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line

F(9) C Am7 D7

And we never have the money for the flight

VERSE 2:

G F/G C(9) D

I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel

G F/G C(9) D

Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans

Em C G - Gs C/G

I'm dirty from the diesel fuel, drinking coffee black

G Am7 D7sus D7

When the first breath of Texas comes in clean

CHORUS:

G G C C

And there's something about the southland in the springtime

G B7 Em C

Where the waters flow with confidence and reason

G Gsus/A G/B Gsus/C

Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long

Am7 G/B C D

Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season

Am7 G/B C D

When god made me born a yankee he was teasing

Em7 G/B C D

There's no place like home and none more pleasing than the southland

G C/G C F/C - C D C G - Gsus G

in the springtime

In Georgia, nights are softer than a whisper

Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand

With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations

And the peach trees stitched across the land

There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside

And warm peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers

And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky

With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers

Repeat chorus, end on last G.

INTRO TAB:

G F(9)/G C D

E ----------------|----------------|----------------|------0=2---2-3-|
B ----------0-----|--1-------1-----|--1-------1-----|--3-------3-----|
G ------0-------0-|------0-------0-|----------------|----2-----------|
D ----0-------0---|----3-------3---|----0=2-----0=2-|0---------------|
A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|
E 3---+---3---+---|3---+---3---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|

G F(9)/G C D

E ----------------|----------------|----------------|------0=2-------|
B ----------0-----|--1-------1-----|--1-------1-----|--3-------------|
G ------0-------0-|------0-------0-|----------------|----2-----------|
D ----0-------0---|----3-------3---|----0=2-----0=2-|0---------------|
A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|
E 3---+---3---+---|3---+---3---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|

- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com