Automatic Chords
Automatic by Miranda Lambert is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords C, F, Am and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C F Am F x2
C
Quarter in a payphone
Drying laundry on the line
Bb
Watching sun tea in the window
F
Pocket watch for telling time
C
Seems like only yesterday
I'd get a blank cassette
Bb
Record the Country Countdown
F
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet
C F
C
If we drove all the way to Dallas
Just to buy an Easter dress
Bb
We'd take along a Rand McNally
F
Stand in line to pay for gas
C
God knows that shifting gears
Ain't what it used to be
Bb
I learned to drive that '55
F
Just like a Queen three on the trip
C F
Hey whatever happened to
Am
Waiting your turn
F
Doing it all by hand
C F
'Cos when everything is handed to you
Am F
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
Bb F
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Bb F C
Back before everything became, Automatic
F Am F
C
If you had something to say
You'd write in on a piece of paper
Bb
And you'd put a stamp on it
F
And they'd get it three days later
C
Boys would call the girls
And girls would turn them down
Bb
Staying married was the only way
F
To work your problems out
C F
Hey whatever happened to
Am
Waiting your turn
F
Doing it all by hand
C F
'Cos when everything is handed to you
Am F
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
Bb F
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Bb F C F
Am F
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
C F Am F
Automatic
C
Lets's roll the windows down
Windows with the cranks
Bb
Come on let's take a picture
F
The kind you gotta shake
C F
Hey whatever happened to
Am
Waiting your turn
F
Doing it all by hand
C F
'Cos when everything is handed to you
Am F
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
Bb F
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Bb F C F
Am F
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
C
Automatic
Outro: F Am F C