Billy Joe Shaver
WHEN THE WORD WAS THUNDERBIRD 


Verse 1:
      Am
 	 Up every morning at the crack of dawn
      G  
 	 Nights as short as the days are long
         D                                 Em  
 	 Life turned out to be another magazine
      Am   
 	 Livin' with a stranger now
      G
 	 Girl i knew got away somehow
         D                             Em  
 	 She went out with two bit gasoline

 	 On the go,back - you know what i mean

 	 
Chorus:
             Am                        
 	 Now when the word was Thunderbird
      G 
 	 And the price recorded twice
      D                                  Em
 	 Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun


Verse 2:
      Am
 	 Ah,but love turned out to be a passin' thing
      G 
 	 Different bird of a different wing
         D                                  Em  
 	 Some damn fool put a dollar twenty nine

 	 On a jug of Thunderbird wine
             Am       
 	 And Lord i don't know if i'm gonna make it
         G
 	 Don't know if i'll have the strength to take it
         D                             Em
 	 Everything's hung up in yesterday


Verse 3:
      Am
 	 There's you a secret-minded social girl
         G
 	 Takin' short cuts in a woman's world
         D                                    Em   
 	 She won't let her hair down when i'm home
          Am  
 	 Society's just slavery
             G
 	 And security is killing me
         D                                     Em
 	 I work hard for it but i give it all away

 	 If i could go back to yesterday


Chorus (x2).