Calico Plains chords by Matraca Berg

Strumming: Suggested ↓ ↓↑ ↓ ↓↑
Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)

♫ Intro:

A


♫ Verse:

A
Sweet Abilena looked out

at the midwestern sky
A
Sweet seventeen with

a far away look in her eyes
D
She said "I feel like
  C
a bird in a cage
D
"But come September
    C
I'm flying away."
A
I said "I'll miss you," then

I made her promise to write


♫ Chorus:

E
Since we were tall as

the corn in the spring
   D
We shared every secret,

shared every dream
   E
So anxious to grow in

the new summer rain
    C
And bloom like a rose on
    D             A
the calico plains


♫ Verse:

A
How could she hear as

we laughed on that long summer night
A
The tiny heart of the baby

she carried inside
D
I stood beside her
     C
when September came
D
Watched her get married,
     C
then caught the bouquet
               A
And like those hand-me-down

dresses she gave me
A
I made her dreams mine


♫ Chorus:

       E
From a seat by the window

on wings made of steel
  D
I stared at the patchwork

over the fields
      E
Where young tears that

once flowed like warm summer rain
     C
Were turning to snow on
    D             A
the calico plains


♫ Solo:

Em D C Bm A
Em D C G  D  A


♫ Verse:

A
Sweet Abilena looks out

at the midwestern sky
A
Closer to thirty,

but farther away in her eyes
D
She holds her babies like
C
she holds her dreams
D
Each night she kisses and
C
rocks them to sleep
          A
While she reads the letters

she makes me promise to write


♫ Outro:

A
Sweet Abilena looks out at
    Em         A
the midwestern sky


Chords used in Calico Plains by Matraca Berg:
A, D, C, E, Em, Bm, G