Flies on the Butter

Artist: Wynonna Judd (English)
User: ette4eva
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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FLIES ON THE BUTTER – Wynona Judd    [Note] Suits a quiet guitar picking   [Time] 4/4   [Tempo] Slow  Quiet  

   [Intro]  [G] [G] [Em] [Em] [C] [D] [GD-pause

1.      
           G                     Em                         
   Old tin roof    leaves in the gutter         
                 C
   a hole in the screen door
                  D                       G       D
   as big as your fist   and flies on the butter

2.
                  G                                                 
   Mama  baking  sugar cookies          
                          Em
   We were  watching  car-toons
                               C              
   I heard her holler from the kitchen    
                     D                          G    D -pause
   “Which one of you Youg-ins wants to lick the spoon
                                      
3.
   NC    -  -  -  -  -  -  G                                         
   Yellow  jackets on the  watermelon    
                      Em
   Honey-suckle in the air
                        C                                                                   
   Daddy turning on the sprinkler     
                   D   
   Us kids running through it 
          G          D - pause
   in our underwear  Old dog napping on the

4. 
   G                           Em
   Front porch  His ear just a-twit-ching   
                  C 
   fell asleep on gran-daddy's lap 
                       D              G                                          
   to the sound of his pocket watch a-tic-kin

   [Chorus]
          Cadd9 D         G    Cadd9  D     
   Waa aa oh        Wa aa oh    
 
   It does-n't    seem   like   it   was   all    
            G
   that long ago oh
       Cadd9  D        G   Em          Am             
   Waa aa oh          Wa aa oh          You can dream a-bout it 
Cadd9           D-hold -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - G
   Ev-ery  now and then     but you can't go home again

   Interlude 1 : Em  C   D - hold

-  -  -  -  -  -  -  - G                                Em
   Me and my best fri-end  Je-nny       

   Set up a back-yard camp
                               C                           D                                                         
   Stole one of ma-ma's ma-son jars     

    Poked holes in the lid 
                     G       D- hold
   and made a fire fly lamp
-  -  -  -  -  - G                                 Em
   Me and Bil-ly Mon-roe       sneak-ing   down by the riv-er
             C                                       D                                                            
   And I'm still haun-ted by     the taste of the kiss 
                      G
   I was too scar-ed to give him

[Repeat underline chorus]

[Interlude 2]  Cadd9 D-hold
 
   -  -  -  -  -  -  -  G                                 Em
   There's a    black-top road        

   A faded yel-low   cen-ter-line
                 C                           D - hold - -  -  - - G
   It can take you back  to the place but it can't  

   take you back in time

   [Repeat underlined chorus]

   Quiet  G                    Em                         C
   Old tin roof   leaves in the gut-ter         a hole in the screen door
               D      slow                 G        Em   C   D   G
   as big as your fist      and flies       on the but-ter

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