They Call It The Hill Country Chords
by Randy Rogers
They Call It The Hill Country by Randy Rogers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, G, A, Bm and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
in waltz time
D G D A D
D G D
Well the hills of cow gap stood rugged and awesome
D A
But you have to have fill dirt when you?re building a road
D G D
And the hills of cow gap, they withered the ages
D A Bm
Got wiped off the map at twelve dollars a load
G D
Well they call it the hill country, I call it beautiful
A D D7
I?d call it progress, if it could be saved
G D Bm
They call it the hill country, I call it home
A D
What will they call it, when it?s leveled and paved
D G D A D
D G D
Uncivilized pagans drank untreated water
D A
Right out of our river way back in their day
D G D
Now those streams bubble with cleaned treated sewage
D A Bm
While they sit in their hot tubs and sip perrier
Repeat chorus
Bridge
G D
Strip off the hill top, build look-a-like houses
G A
Move in some people and turn on the tv
G D
After the ball game turn on some old movies
D A Bm
They?ll smile when they see how it used to be
Repeat chorus x3 (second time acoustic only)
A D
What will they call it when it?s leveled and paved
D G D