SOUTHLAND IN THE SPRINGTIME (Indigo Girls) ------------------------------------------- capo at the 2nd fret. G F C D G F C D [intro] [G] Maybe we'll make [F] Texas by the [C] morning [D] Light the [G] bayou with our [F] taillights in the [C] night [D] Eight [Em] hundred miles to El [C] Paso from the [G] state line And we [F] never have the [C] money for the[Am7] flight [D7] VERSE 2: I'm in the [G] back seat [F] sleepy from the [C ]travel [D] Played our [G] hearts out all night [F] long in New [C] Orleans [D] I'm [Em] dirty from the [C] diesel fuel, [G] drinking coffee [C] black When the [G] first breath of [Am7] Texas comes in [D7] clean CHORUS: And there's [G] something about the southland in the [C] springtime Where the [G] waters flow with [B7] confidence and [Em] reason [C] Though I [G] miss her when I'm [A] gone, it won't [G] ever be too long Till I'm [Am7] home again to [G] spend my favorite [C] season [D] When god [Am7] made me born a [G] yankee he was [C] teasing [D] There's no [Em7] place like home and [G] none more [C] pleasing than the [D] southland in the spring [G] time [C] [F] [D] [C] [G] In [G] Georgia, [F] nights are softer [C] than a [D] whisper Beneath a [G] quilt somebody's [F] mother [C] made by [D] hand With the [Em] farmland like a [C] tapestry passed down [G] through [C] generations And the [F] peach trees [C] stitched [Am7] across the [D7] land There'll be [G] cider [F] up near Helen [C] off the [D] roadside And warm [G] peanuts in a [F] bag to [C] warm your [D] fingers And the [Em] smoke from the [C] chimneys meets its [G] maker in the [C] sky With a F song that winter C wrote whose Am7 melody D7 lingers And there's [G] something about the southland in the [C] springtime Where the [G] waters flow with [B7] confidence and [Em] reason [C] Though I [G] miss her when I'm [A] gone, it won't [G] ever be too long Till I'm [Am7] home again to [G] spend my favorite [C] season [D] When god [Am7] made me born a [G] yankee he was [C] teasing [D] There's no [Em7] place like home and [G] none more [C] pleasing than the [D] southland in the spring [G] time [C] [F] [D] [C] [G]
