G                            C           G
Mama keeps tryin? to get the game on the radio
              D/F#     G
Daddy?s gotta know the score
                                C        G
There?s a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
                 D/F#    G
Wonder what that thing?s for

G                              C         G
We got towels rolled up in the back seat window
           D/F#       G
Keeping us out of the sun
                              C                 G
Just a hundred more miles and we?ll be at grand ma?s
     D/F#        G
Sure is gonna be fun

G                         C   G
Maybe she?ll take us fish in?
             D/F#      G
Maybe she?ll bake us a pie
                           C   G
Remember like she did that one time
            D/F#    G
Back before grandpa died

     C               G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F#               G
Everybody?s on the road
      C                   G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F#                    G
Y?all be sure and drive slow

G                           C                 G
Ninety eight degrees in the shade of the tool shed
         D/F#        G
Can?t go back in the house
                           C                  G
They?re all in the kitchen yellin? ?bout some thing
                D/F# G
Don?t know what it?s about

G                 C      G
Joey ?n Mary said not to worry
                   D/F#     G
Said it?s just the same old fight
                      C       G
Happens whenever they all get together
             D/F#   G
Everything?s really alright

     C               G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F#                         G
This is how it?s supposed to be
C                         G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F#               G
In the land of the free

G                        C                 G
Daddy?s in the big chair sippin? on a cold beer
          D/F#      G
Grandma?s cuttin? a switch
                   C           G
She overheard Mary cussin? her brother
             D/F#     G
Called him a son of a b***h

                                C         G
She got a good green limb off a sweet gum sapling
           D/F#     G
Man that?s bound to sting
                        C                      G
But Mary don?t cry just stands there and takes it
                D/F#   G
Doesn?t seem to feel a thing

G                      C                G
No Mary don?t cry, you know she?s a big girl
            D/F#        G
Wonder what made her so mad
                              C                  G
She takes those licks looking in through the den door
              D/F#            G
Staring right straight at her dad

Fiddle solo..

G                               C        G
There?s a big yellow thing on a flat bed trailer
             D/F#     G
Daddy nearly hit that bird
They?re both in the front seat
        C              G
Starin? right straight ahead
            D/F#     G
Neither one saying a word

G                           C         G
The sun?s going down in the rear view mirror
         D/F#        G
Gonna be driving all night
                         C       G
Wonder if the neighbor?s fed the canary
              D/F#  G
Wonder if the cat?s alright

     C               G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F#               G
Everybody?s on the road
      C                   G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F#                    G
Y?all be sure and drive slow

     C               G
It?s Memorial Day in America
D/F#                         G
This is how it?s supposed to be
C                         G
Let?s remember our fallen heroes
D/F#               G
In the land of the free