The Truck Got Stuck chords by Corb Lund

• Capo on 7th

Intro:

   G             C             D                 G             C             D
e|---3--------3----3--------3----2---2---2-----|---3--------3----3--------3----2---2--------|
B|---3--------3----3--------3----3---3---3-----|---3--------3----3--------3----3---3--------|
G|---0--------0----0--------0----2---2---2-----|---0--------0----0--------0----2---2--------|
D|----------0---------0h2-2----0-------0-------|----------0---------0h2-2----0-------0------|
A|------0h2------3-----------------0-----------|------0h2------3-----------------0-----3-2-0|
E|-3----------------------------------------2--|-3------------------------------------------|


Play the first half of the progression over the verses, ending each verse with the second half.


Chorus:
     G                        C
The Chev got stuck and the Ford got stuck,

         D                       G
Got the Chev unstuck when the Dodge showed up,

         G                        A7
But the Dodge got stuck in the tractor rut

       A7                           D
Which eventually pulled out the Ford

(With some difficulty)


Verse 1:
            G                           C
Well, more rain than we'd seen for a thousand years

        D
Caused financial joys and biblical fears

    G                       C
It caused some smiles, it caused some tears

     D
But more to the point of our story:


         G                         C
For the first time in the collective memory,

      D
That old brown prairie that had been so dry

     G                C           D
For so long, was very muddy, boggy, sticky,

           G                       C
We'd pull one truck out and get another stuck in,

     D
And motors would roar and tires would spin,

      G                  C
We'd sink right down, down to the diff,

      D
We'd all take turns and do it again,

      G                           C
'Til no one could move we call one more friend,

         D
Come on out here we need ya, bring yer truck


|G C |D   |
(Second half of intro)


Chorus:
     G                        C
The Chev got stuck and the Ford got stuck,

         D                       G
Got the Chev unstuck when the Dodge showed up,

         G                        A7
But the Dodge got stuck in the tractor rut

       A7                           D
Which eventually pulled out the Ford

(And the Dodge, equal opportunity)


Verse 2:
             G                          C
Well got me stuck in the mud so as I couldn't rehearse,

 D
Chavez too has missed his work,

 G               C
Richie he now fears the worst,

       D
Stood up his ex-wife she called him a jerk

           G                                      C
Of course Holdman didn't have nothin better to do,

 D
     ...Except wrench


|G C |D   |


Chorus:
     G                        C
The Chev got stuck and the Ford got stuck,

         D                       G
Got the Chev unstuck when the Dodge showed up,

         G                        A7
But the Dodge got stuck in the tractor rut

       A7                           D
Which eventually pulled out the Ford


Verse 3:
             G                      C
Well it was truck after truck we all got stuck

           D
'Cept the big ol' four-by Hutterite truck,

 G                           C
We all thought "Lord, are we in luck"

        D
But he wouldn't come anywhere near us. Mighty neighbourly.

 G      C                    D
     Mighty neighbourly


           G                        C
We used a lot of our backs and a little of our brains,

    D
We jacked up the jacks and snugged up the the chains,

    G                       C
We all did our very best to refrain

      D
From shovelin',


             G                    C
We put what timber we had underneath the wheels,

            D
And we was all outta sand, but managed to steal,

     G                          C                         D
Two sacks of the best modern canola seed ya ever did see,

 D
That oughta give us some traction


|G C |D   |


Chorus:
     G                        C
The Chev got stuck and the Ford got stuck,

         D                       G
Got the Chev unstuck when the Dodge showed up,

         G                        A7
But the Dodge got stuck in the tractor rut

       A7                           D
Which eventually pulled out the Ford

(Epilogue)

Verse 4:
              G                      C
We spilled genetically modified canola seed

            D
That was genetically modified for controlling the weeds,

         G                   C
And for big old yields of margarine oil,

        D
Raised hell all over that native prairie soil

 G               C           D                                    G
  Agriculture Canada is definitely gonna be lookin' for us