Country Comfort

COUNTRY COMFORT

Year:  1971
Album:  TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

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Soon the pines will be falling everywhere

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Village children fight each other for a share

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And the six o' nine goes roaring past the creek

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Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week


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I saw grandma yesterday down at the store

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Well she's really going fine for eighty four

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Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn

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Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm


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And it's good old country comfort in my bones

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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


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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

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Yeah but that ain't natural well so old Clay would say

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You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day

(CHORUS)

(INSTRUMENTAL VERSE)

(CHORUS)

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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