John Deere Tractor Acoustic Live chords by Billy Strings

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

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

Key: D

Intro:

D D/C# Dsus2/C G D



Verse 1:

     D    D/C#  Dsus2/C                            G    Em
Hey, momma
here’s a letter from your son
        G                       D
Well
I guess, my city days are done.
        C                G               D
And it ain’t been three weeks since you came
D    D/C#  Dsus2/C                         G    Em
Hey, momma
I do remember what you said
G                        D
Say your prayers before you go to bed, son
C             G               D
And remember city women ain’t the same
Chorus:
           C                       G
I’m like a John Deere tractor in a half acre field
B7                                E               E7
Trying to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel
A          D                     A            D
Oh
I wish I was home
Lord
Where the blue grasses grow
A             E           A        A7
And the sweet country girls don’t complain.

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

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

Chorus:
           C                       G
I’m like a John Deere tractor in a half acre field
B7                                E               E7
Trying to plow a furrow where the soil is made of steel
A          D                   A            D
Oh
I wish I was home, ma, where the blue grasses grow
A          E            A        A7
And the fire light shimmers and shines.

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


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Intro run you can use if you wish:
e|------------2---------|
B|------------3---------|
G|------------2---------|
D|----------------------|
A|--3-2-0---0-----------|
E|--------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
e|----------------------|
B|----------------------|
G|----------------------|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
E|--2-3--2-3--1-0-------|

Run B
e|----------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------|
G|--------------0-------------------|
D|---------0-2----------------------|
A|-----0-2--------------------------|
E|--3--------------2-3-2--1-0-------|

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