John Deere Tractor

Lawrence Hammond

Key of D · Chords: I II IV V VI VII ii

Verse 1

D   D/C#  D/C      D/B              G   Em
Hey mama, here's a letter from your son
G                              D
Well, I guess my city days are done, ma
C                 G                     D
And it ain't been three weeks since you came

Verse 2

D   D/C#  D/C  D/B               G    Em
Hey mama, 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

D          C                                 G
I'm like a John Deere tractor in a half-acre field
B7                                                   E
I'm tryin' to plow furrows Where the soil is made of steel
A                D                    A   D
Oh, I wish I was home, mama Where the bluegrass is growin'
A       E                            A     A7
And the sweet country girls don't complain

Verse 3

D   D/C#  D/C     D/B                   G     Em
Hey mama, 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

(Chorus)

Verse 4

D   D/C#    D/C     D/B  G     Em
Oh, 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"
C         G               D
And after she had been so kind..