Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (
E MajorE 
A augmentedA 
D MajorD 
G+G 
BB E MajorE)
Verse:
G+G 
C majorC G+G D MajorD
Caravan of yellow wire, and crawling across the plains
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
Rolling along in a single file, like a slow moving train
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
It rumbled down out of the mist, into the early morning light
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
Said they stay 'til the job was finished, if it took them 'til midnight
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
There were cats & scr*pers all caterpillars, packed up by mile high crane
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
And it looked like monsters from the old b movies, the drive-ins use to play
Chorus:
G+G C majorC
And we'd sang good bye Saturday under the stars
G+G D MajorD
Wake up little Suzy in my daddy's car
G+G C majorC
So many memories got lost and found
G+G C majorC
When a piece of history hit the ground
G+G C majorC G+G
The day they tore the last drive-in down
Verse:
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
Memories thick as the smoke clouds they made, man and machine became one
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
Boards snapped like toothpicks on their blades, but to us it sounded like guns
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
Cowboys, soldiers, gangsters, and thieves, James Bond and his golden girls
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
Well you could sit in your car and never turn the key, and go half way around the world
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
And it stood like a landmark for forty years, we never thought we'd live to see
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
It fall it to the ground and then just disappear, like so many childhood dreams
Chorus:
G+G C majorC
And we'd sang good bye Saturday under the stars
G+G D MajorD
Wake up little Suzy in my daddy's car
G+G C majorC
So many memories got lost and found
G+G C majorC
When a piece of history hit the ground
G+G C majorC G+G
The day they tore the last drive-in down
Bridge: - All on strum
G+G C majorC
A augmentedA lot of the drivers had tears in their eyes,
G+G C majorC
but I don't think it was just the dust
G+G C majorC G+G
See I still believe there's a little piece of that old drive-in left in all of us
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
Nobody moved through what seemed like hours, and slow motion it came tumbling down
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC
We just stood there with a taste of metal in our mouths and a silence all around
D MajorD (One Strum) G+G (One Strum)
The day they tore the last drive-in down
Chorus:
G+G C majorC
And we'd sang good bye Saturday under the stars
G+G D MajorD
Wake up little Suzy in my daddy's car
G+G C majorC
So many memories got lost and found
G+G C majorC
When a piece of history hit the ground
G+G C majorC G+G
The day they tore the last drive-in down
