COUNTRY COMFORT Year: 1971 Album: TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION Writers: Elton John\ Bernie Taupin A D A D A Bm A\C# D Soon the pines will be falling everywhere F#m\C# Bm G E Village children fight each other for a share A Bm A\C# D And the six o' nine goes roaring past the creek F#m\C# Bm D E A D Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week A D I saw grandma yesterday down at the store F#m\C# Bm G E Well she's really going fine for eighty four A D Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn F#m\C# Bm D E A Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm D E A And it's good old country comfort in my bones D E A Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known D E Am G F Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-gro____wn Bm7 D E A D G D A Country comfort's in a truck that's going home A D Down at the well they've got a new machine F#m\C# Bm G E The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen A D Yeah but that ain't natural well so old Clay would say F#m\C# Bm D E A You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day (CHORUS) (INSTRUMENTAL VERSE) (CHORUS) A D Now the old fat goose is flying cross the sticks F#m\C# Bm G E The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks A D And the rocking chair's creaking on the porch F#m\C# Bm D E A Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch (CHORUS) Bm7 D E A D G D A Country comfort's in a truck that's going home Bm7 D E A G D\F# A Country comfort's in a truck that's going home