John Deere Tractor Acoustic Live chords by Billy Strings

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Performance: Billy Strings - John Deere Tractor (Larry Sparks)

Key: D MajorD

Intro:

D MajorD D/C# Dsus2/C G+G D MajorD


Verse 1:

   D MajorD  D/C# Dsus2/C              G+G  E minorEm
Hey, momma
here’s a letter from your son
    G+G            D MajorD
Well
I guess, my city days are done.
    C majorC        G+G        D MajorD
And it ain’t been three weeks since you came
D MajorD  D/C# Dsus2/C             G+G  E minorEm
Hey, momma
I do remember what you said
G+G            D MajorD
Say your prayers before you go to bed, son
C majorC       G+G        D MajorD
And remember city women ain’t the same
Chorus:
      C majorC            G+G
I’m like a John Deere tractor in a half acre field
B7B7                E MajorE        E7E7
Trying to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel
A augmentedA     D MajorD           A augmentedA      D MajorD
Oh
I wish I was home
Lord
Where the blue grasses grow
A augmentedA       E MajorE      A augmentedA    A7A7
And the sweet country girls don’t complain.

Instrumental:
D MajorD D/C# Dsus2/C G+G D MajorD

Verse 2:
D MajorD     D/C# Dsus2/C                G+G   E minorEm
Hey Momma
so much perfume I thought I’d drown
G+G            D MajorD
And the Lord didn’t seem to be nowhere around
C majorC      G+G       D MajorD
Oh I feel like a flower on the vine
      C majorC
Aw, she was pretty Lord knows
G+G                D MajorD
Thought that she would bring me joy
  C majorC        G+G         D MajorD
She laughed and she called me country boy, boy
  C majorC   G+G        D MajorD
and after she had been so kind

Chorus:
      C majorC            G+G
I’m like a John Deere tractor in a half acre field
B7B7                E MajorE        E7E7
Trying to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel
A augmentedA     D MajorD          A augmentedA      D MajorD
Oh
I wish I was home, ma, where the blue grasses grow
A augmentedA     E MajorE      A augmentedA    A7A7
And the fire light shimmers and shines.

Outro:
D MajorD D/C# Dsus2/C G+G D MajorD
D D/C# Dsus2/C G+G D MajorD

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Intro run you can use if you wish:
e|------------2---------|
BB|------------3---------|
G+G|------------2---------|
D MajorD|----------------------|
A augmentedA|--3-2-0---0-----------|
E MajorE|--------3-------------|

You can use these runs if you wish after “son” line 7, after “said” line 13, and after “drown” line 34:
Note, these are two different runs and only one should be used at a time:

Run A augmentedA
e|----------------------|
BB|----------------------|
G+G|----------------------|
D MajorD|----------------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------|
E MajorE|--2-3--2-3--1-0-------|

Run BB
e|----------------------------------|
BB|----------------------------------|
G+G|--------------0-------------------|
D MajorD|---------0-2----------------------|
A augmentedA|-----0-2--------------------------|
E MajorE|--3--------------2-3-2--1-0-------|

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