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Album: Water from Another Time, 1985\r\nWords and Music: John McCutcheon\r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span> D7<\/span> G<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nOne morning while reading the paper, in search of a new set of wheels\r\n A<\/span> D<\/span> B7<\/span> E7<\/span> A7<\/span>\r\nThe classifieds had a most curious ad in their listing of automobiles\r\n D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span> D7<\/span> G<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nI read in suspicious amusement what seemed like a great stroke of luck\r\n G<\/span> D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span>\r\n\"Corvette Stingray,\" it said, \"low mileage, bright red, '83 model -- sixty-five bucks\"\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span> D7<\/span> G<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nWell I was used to my newspaper's typos, still I called up that number straightway\r\n A<\/span> D<\/span> B7<\/span> E7<\/span> \r\n\"'Bout that '83 'Vette -- have you sold the thing yet?\" She said, \"No, you're my first call \r\n A7<\/span>\r\ntoday\"\r\n D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span> D7<\/span> G<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nI said, \"There's been some mistake in the paper, they've printed the price wrong somehow\"\r\n G<\/span> D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span>\r\n\"Oh, no,\" replied she, \"they got that from me.\" I said, \"Don't sell that car, I'm leaving now\"\r\n \r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\n G<\/span> D<\/span> G<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nWell her address was in the part of the city where I'd ventured just one time or two\r\n A<\/span> D<\/span> E7<\/span> \r\nWhere the doctors, bank presidents, and lawyers are residents, and the houses are massive and \r\nA7<\/span>\r\nnew\r\n D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span> D7<\/span> G<\/span> F#<\/span>\r\nAs I drove up her half-a-mile driveway, there in the heat of the day\r\n G<\/span> D<\/span> B7<\/span> E7<\/span> A7<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nIn the sunlight it gleamed, the car of my dreams -- just sixty-five dollars away\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n D<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span> D7<\/span> G<\/span> D<\/span>\r\nWell the interior was done in of white leather, it had a 587 V-8\r\nA<\/span> D<\/span> B7<\/span> E7<\/span> A7<\/span>\r\nGull wingspan doors, Hurst four-on-the-floor, and the 8-channel tape deck was great\r\n D A D D7 G D\r\nThere was chrome on the chrome on the fenders An aerodynamic design\r\n G D A D\r\nA bar, a TV, and it was bogglin' to me that for sixty-five bucks it was mine\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n D A D D7 G D\r\nWell I expected that this woman was crazy, to sell off this car at that price\r\n A D B7 E7 \r\nBut as we walked down the lane she seemed perfectly sane -- she was charming and really quite \r\n A7\r\nnice\r\n D A D D7 G F#\r\nAnd she smiled in such great satisfaction as she handed me title and keys\r\n G D A \r\nI said, \"I've just got to know why you've let this thing go -- what's wrong with this car, tell\r\n D\r\n me, please?\"\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse]\r\n D A D D7 G D\r\nSaid she, \"I'll be sixty come Tuesday, and I've lived here with my husband Earl\r\n A D B7 E7 A7\r\nAfter thirty years wed, and without a word said, he left me for a young teenage girl\r\n D A D D7 G F#\r\nWith his credit cards left here behind him, I knew that he couldn't get far\r\n G D A D\r\nLast night from Florida he sent a wire to me, said, 'I need money, dear -- sell the car!'\"\r\nX<\/div><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McCutchen Album: Water from Another Time, 1985 Words and Music: John McCutcheon [Verse] D A D D7 G D One morning while reading the paper, in search of a new set of wheels A D B7 E7 A7 The classifieds had a most curious ad in their listing …