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GRIFFITH NANCI


Drive In Movies

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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