INTRO:
G D C G
VERSE:
G
Driving through the land of
Lincoln always gets me thinking
D
Of the flatlands where I come from
C G
and the life I left behind
G
The corn grew high on
Grandpa's farm
Now they boarded up the barn
D
That way of life from long
C G
ago just withered on the vine
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CHORUS:
C
You can take a girl out
D
of the heartland
Am
But you can't take the
G C
heartland from the heart
G G
Of a flatland girl
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VERSE:
G
You can plant your dreams
in God's green acre
Send 'em to Heaven
in a grain elevator
D
But prayers don't
run the tractor
C G
But promise summer rain
G
And I found out when
I was young
A farmеr's day is never done
D
And whеn the hard
times hit the heartland
C G
They had to move away
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CHORUS:
C
You can take a girl out
D
of the heartland
Am
But you can't take the
G C
heartland from the heart
G
Of a flatland girl
INSTRUMENTAL:
C D Am G C
C D Am G C G
G D C G
G D C G
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VERSE:
G
Then one day from the Windy City
In blew a man who
could talk too pretty
D
He had a long look
and Grandpa shook
C G
That's been five years ago
G
Nowadays when I'm up
in the land of Lincoln
I ask myself,
"What were they thinking?"
D
All that's left is a photograph
C G
of the flatland fields of home
CHORUS:
C
You can take a girl
D
out of the heartland
Am
But you can't take the
G C
heartland from the heart
C
You can take a girl
D
out of the heartland
Am G
But you can't take the heartland
C C
from the heart
G
Of a flatland girl
G G D C G
