Devil_Duck

This is a recent revision of an old song. The verse chords are the ultra cliched, but always handy C-G-Am-F, the chours is G-F-C x3 then C-D7, and the verse is Em-D-C-B x3 then Em-D7.

The Midwest is a Vast Thing to Drive Across

Verse:
You said you'd meet me in Sioux City
On a Tuesday afternoon
In hindsight, when you never showed up
I should have known that I was doomed
You finally called me back the evening
With more apologies than I could count
And you kept me up until daylight just a' listening
To the challenges that you could not surmount

Chorus:
When all this wickedness is over
When all my troubles come to pass
I'll damn my heart for all the trouble
And make you pay me back for all the gas

Verse:
Well, I had plans in Omaha one evening
I called you up with an invite to join
And a joke at which you'd later laugh much harder
When told by a mechanic in Des Moines
I feel like I've spent a year of summers
Just trying to find my way to where you are
Like that time you made me drive in Kansas City
Well, that incident damn near destroyed my car

(Chorus)

Bridge:
Miranda, today I got your letter, says you want me there in Denver
You've fallen on hard luck
Well there's a mighty blizzard blowing in Vermillion
But it's not South Dakota's cold that keeps me stuck

Verse:
Somewhere today in west Nebraska
There's a vulture flying low over the plains
Meanwhile to the east of Rapid City
There's an old man sitting on his porch prayin' for rain
Well, me, I guess I've always been a fool
But that's a pattern that I hope to interrupt
I don't care now what exit you are stuck at
This time I'm not gonna come and pick you up

(Chorus)

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